Electrical Panel Labels

[bilofsky]

I've just made a delightful discovery.

I was contemplating rearranging my AC distribution panel for installation of an inverter. I figured I'd have to buy an expensive package of hundreds of panel labels just to get the few I need.

Not so.

Go to this page on the Blue Seas Systems web site and click "Individual Label Order Form".

They have over six hundred labels, and will sell you just the ones you want.

For fifty cents each.

And mail them for free.

Now, that's the kind of deal you don't find very often.

And they have quite an assortment.

If you've been searching for that hard-to-find "MIZZEN FLOOD" label for your electrical panel - well, here you go. I think I'll order a "BALLAST CONTROLS", just in case I ever come across that submarine at the brokerage dock. Are you mounting an anti-aircraft gun on the foredeck? Here's your "GUN LOCKS" label. Then there's a "ROD LOCKER" label - just the thing for your Viagra supply.

Uh - maybe I better stop.

[CharlieJ]

Thanks for the tip. I plan to order some.

A slight variant is the need for a waterproof material for less standardized information such as fuse panel diagrams, maintenance information, etc.

I stumbled on an excellent product recently: Xerox "Never Tear" paper. It's actually a plastic material that appears like slightly stiff printer paper. They had it at our local Staples printing department for $1 a sheet. (The lady was printing an order of waterproof manuals for plumbers.) The material is designed for printing with a laser printer and to remain waterproof. I used a common "Sharpie" marker and the writing took fine. No smudging or discernible change after soaking in a glass of water for hours.

[Joe Myerson]

Thanks for the tip. I plan to order some.

A slight variant is the need for a waterproof material for less standardized information such as fuse panel diagrams, maintenance information, etc..

There's also a waterproof paper available for ink-jet printers.

I've used it to print out chart details with waypoints on it, and even lists of waypoints (I don't have a chartplotter on board, but I do have an old version of MapTach's Offshore Navigator program on my desktop computer that will allow me to download and print out chart sections.

No reason it couldn't be used for wiring diagrams and the like.

--Joe

[CharlieJ]

Thanks. It never occured to me to ask for another type. What she had seemed so neat. Back to the store.