Electrics

Most of this week has been spent finishing off and painting the internal surfaces of the woodwork for the switch panel mounting for the time being I have decided to reuse the switch panel that came with the boat its not the original and is obviously home built but the switches seam OK. It needs some tidying up and some of the soldered joints need attention and in addition I will modify the connection arrangement as I have a thing about chocolate block connectors on boats or anywhere else come to that some new labels for the switches will also be required.

The engine panel plugs and sockets are now connected and in theory if the battery were to be connected and the key turned things should happen starting the engine is still a little way off as I still need to install the fuel tank.

Before assembling the woodwork I installed the bus bars and connector blocks for the new wiring.

Busbars and connectors fitted

The long busbar at the top is to take the negative cables from all circuits, the four way bar at the bottom is the positive distribution bar to the switch panels etc which will be fed by a fused supply from the selector switch and the connector blocks will replace the chocolate block connectors on the switch panel.

Once the hardware was fitted I put the woodwork together its now almost complete just needs the bottom infill piece and the hardwood trim but next week will be a short working week as I am off to Plymouth on Tuesday, weather permitting, to bring back the boat that we sailed to Dartmouth previously.

Front and end panel fitted

Switch panel in place