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I've learned more in the last 13 minutes than I have in my entire life about wiring. I always seem to let it get to me and overcomplicate things. This made it a breeze to understand. Simple actually. Thanks!

Small but important point ... follow standard DC wiring code and use RED for the positive and BLACK for the negative. You can also purchase some flexible plastic conduit that you run all the wires through and makes it much tidier and easier to keep compartments clean. Your video was easy to follow.

Electrical work is an absolute nightmare for me. Thanks for breaking it down as simply as you did on here. I’ll probably end up watching this video a few more times but I have a good idea in my head now.

Am looking to get a used boat that will definitely become a project. The boat is 33 years old so I am going to redo every system in it to include the electrical wiring, gauges, pumps, convert to LED lighting thru-out and generally whatever it needs. I am medically retired so as long as I am above ground, I will have and make time to work on the boat. Even if I go before the boat sees the water again, I will pass it on to my brother who is a fisherman. It is also therapy. Thanks for providing an easy to use diagram. I am mechanically inclined and have put together 4x4's and a few other things. Wiring seemed to be my weak area, may because of the intimidation factor. But it should go smoothly now. Thanks again.

Just inherited a 1978 sea nymph fishing machine and need to figure out the trim tilt wiring , now I want to rewire the whole thing and add more lights. Your came out super clean good work

This is the best, easiest to understand video I’ve ever watched on general boat wiring. You gave me confidence to rewire my boat. (Several gauges don’t work). I’ll check out your store. Thank you'

Great video. I didn't even know there was a difference in the wire. I just got my first boat I'm a 44 year old car guy and planned on doing my boat like a car. Thanks for teaching me and saving me some future headaches.

Very informative, I’m buying an old boat and want to rewire the entire boat as soon as i get it. This video was a huge help!

This was a fantastic video! I just bought a Pond Prowler 10, AGM battery and a 40 Endura Max. For the last several weeks I have been watching vids of mods and knew I wanted to plan ahead for things electrical. This makes my planning a whole lot easier.

Excellent video! This will really help me planning and executing the installation in my sailboat which I'm restoring. This video saves me a lot of thinking! Many thanks!

You need to slide to heat shrink butt connector down the wire then fray both ends of wire and twist them together then pull your butt connector over them and heat makes the pull strength a 10x's stronger but great videos man very inspiring 👍

Finally a decent video that is easy to understand, thanks mate

Holy smokes....i think our son and i can actually rewire (or at least clean things up a bit) on our boat now. THANK U VERY VERY MUCH!!!!

hey man , my name is Stephen, I' m from vegas , thanks for this video , I think its the best one yet about wiring your boat . I'm a fan of your vidoes , keep them up , I just recently got a 17 ft boat . Took out the old motor and looking for a new one. the next step for me would be wiring everything else . Taking out all the wires out to and invest in wires and new lighting .

Bought the low temp solder connectors off your Amazon store and they are awesome. So much better than standard butt connectors. Thank you!!

Michael Lopez. Great videos. Just wanted to tell you about my boat build. Its a 16' john boat side console. I put in rear deck with gas and battery compartment behind two seats and a bait well. The bait well is led lit with two pumps. If im fishing skinny water i can use one pump to recirculate the filled bait well or if im fishing deeper water i can run mu fill pump and switch my recirculate pump to discharge for continuous fresh exchange. I have another casting deck up front that covers my 24vdc battery system for my trolling motor with storage for life vest and such.. For lights im running led NAV, Anchor, Green underwater lights, green bait well light, and 2x 2k lux spot lights up front. The boat is powered by a 40hp outboard with dedicated battery and bilge pump. I originally this project 3 years ago. I only got to use it a hand full of times befoe i was forced to park it. The trailer colapsed during a hurricane and my wife fell ill needing a few surgeries. ( she is very well now). Im excited to say that im almost finished getting the boat back together. With a new to me trailer and fixing some problems with the motor i just took her out for a test run last weekend. She runs great. Cant wait to go fishing. Im so proud of the boat and all the work i put into it. I learned so much from the TBN community and others like it. Thanks for doing these videos. Keep up the great work.

Rewiring my project Aquasport boat. So basically I should buy the box with ground and power running through it as a fused thing. So if I’m wiring my boat gauges to motor, I should run the positive gauge wire from gauge to the box and have it go from box to engine, and then have the negative ground out in the box. Just making sure I understand. This video helped a lot and made me feel more confident. Thanks

Excellent video! you have officially "completed the circuit" of my electrical thinking process.

Just picked up a 16' x 6' wide flat bottom I'm excited for your videos and to get started on my project

These videos are great. Again. Saving people money. By people i mean me .

Been looking for a long time for a video that would explain it to a slow guy like me! :) Thanks!

great video! they also make liquid electrical tape for sealing terminal ends.

Great video for beginners like me , thanks a lot.

I'm gonna tell you about a life changing tool for what you are doing especialy those sick ass solder connectors surface mount rework hot air gun. It's for doing surface mount pcb rework it's a heat gun that gets hot 5 times as fast as what you are using, has digital temp control, adjustable air , multiple nozzles for adjusting the outlet, and best of all gets up to 800degrees and is made to melt solder. Try melting solder with your heat gun. Get one it will change your life. thank me later. Also Newark, digikey , mouser , are 3 different online electrical component supply houses .

Great video! minor correction: Electrons flow from the negative side of the battery to the positive. Thanks for sharing!

I'm new to your channel And I learned a lot from this video Thank you

Exactly what I need. Thanks for taking the time to make and publish the video. Take care

Great Video! Job well done!

very professional electrical work

Nicely done, Love doing stereo or lighting stuff on my boat. 👍

Excellent video. Highly detailed yet straightforward. Keep up the work!

This is exactly what I needed.

great video. I was able to clearly see what it will take to wire up my boat. other videos have been too long...long worded and very confusing. thank you!!

I'm an engineer and have been commercial fishing over 22 years. You will not find crimp connectors on my boats. I am a fan of the solder connectors. Crimp connectors are a guaranteed fail spot, heat shrink or no. It's basically an arc short in the wire. Soldering basically makes a solid connection in the wire with minimal resistance. If you can not solder, get the solder connections. Save yourself a lot of headaches. Also, if you use buss bars, make sure you use fuseable links or connection to a fuse block for the power out. Nice video

Now that's the best Video going by far, thank God 🤦😂

My wife is a diy person and we just got a boat. This video will help us rewire the whole boat

Thank you so so much, while I recalled my boat I’m gonna do this and re wire everything

Great video! Couldn’t help but laugh when I saw the box of oatmeal cream pies. Love those !😂

Great video. Invest in a crimper the doesn't risk puncturing the the heat shrink connector. Like a ratchet style crimper designed specifically for those connectors your using in the video.

Love the video Thanks for all the great advise on wiring. Thinking of adding lights to mine for spring now.

This is video was very help full thank you

Great video and tips. Animated illustrations are cool and very helpful! Well done! 👍🏼

Thank you

Great video. Learned a lot.

Great video. Now i just need a boat!

cool thanks

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awesome vid.... I am redoing a 16 ft bass tracker 40hp merc. you have some great tips and tricks. thanks

Excellent video, enjoy your work , you have helped me make since of some issues, thank,s

good stuff youtube only took 6 months and 10,0000 videos to find this

Very very nicely done video a great help ty so much!

If you have a lot of accessories in one general area, you can save a lot of wire and have a neater installation by running a single larger wire to a local ground bus. This saves having to run 4-5 individual ground wires all the way back to your switch panel.

Wiring is so intimidating to me and I’m scared to wire something wrong. That and I need to sit down and really watch this video. I praise my I/e guys at the plant man I’m just a dumb ol operator.

Very detailed video one of the best I seen thank you.

Great video Michael. Of course, this was a demo, but no one would ever connect a red and yellow wire together. On boats, Red is for positive, Yellow is for negative. Good tutorial!

i love the simple explanation. Thanx!

super video CZ

Thanks very helpful!

Use a heat gun. You won't over heat your connectors or melt/degrade your insulation. But connectors are way better then solder sleeve connectors. They handle hold up longer and are less likely to break from flexing. For those of you that think soldering is a better connection. Power only runs around the outside of the wire so it really doesn't matter if the center has a better connection.

just bought a used boat and plan on doing some additions along with possible complete re-wire, This Video was very helpful. Sure appreciate the time you took. Thank again!! By the way, have any more of those oatmeal cream pies?? YUMMIE!!!

drove me a little crazy hearing you saying shrink wrap but I know you meant heat shrink anyways great tutorial - I am a wireman but am wanting to add a fuse block to my seaswirl to get all the wires off the battery and just wanted to see how other people were doing it without reinventing the wheel so to speak - thanks again for all the tips and help!

great job very helpfull

Thank you so much for these videos!

Excellent video !!! I will be using most of your links to buy the items I need for my boat. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for sharing! Very useful

Awesome video man !!

Thx from Denmark!!!!super video

Great video, loving the effort you put into your content too

amazing video man ur great for taking the time out of your day for this

crimp+adhesive heat shrink = Life time warranty

great video! i have one question--the switch board i bought has 1 end on the back that’s open. so if i run the bilge pump wire into the back of the switches only open pin, how do i run that pin into my fuse box? do i just piggy back the wires at the pin?

I have watched this video several times when I need a refresher. great video

You earned that subscribe just with this one video, great job🖤🐊💪🏾

Yooooo that setup is so clean!

Great explanation on electrical theory that you included

Totally worthy of a sub. Badass video and sick boat!!!!!!

Stupid question - how does all this tie into the motor? I only want to use one battery.

Super simple and helpful! What kind of loom do you use and how did you finish the loom ends on your pump wiring and hoses? Looks nice and finished!

So the wire runs from the fuse box to the switch and then to whatever I am running. The ground wire only goes to the negative of the fuse box from whatever I am running. The battery wires both go to the fuse box. I should use a shut off switch so I can stop the current to the fuse box. Is this correct? If so I've got it. What about fish finders? Can they go through the fuse box with everything else and to a switch to turn it on? I know the wires are quite small that run the fish finders. I'm re-wiring a Deep V row boat my buddy gave me. I'm going to be building a deck system similar to a bass boat and want to re-due his wiring. The old wiring wasn't any good and everything was corroded, rusted, and rotted away. He had minimal stuff. Thanks

Excellent video. Love the animation.

Very nice

The question I have is I have a 1991 bass buggy 16ft pontoon boat. I've completely restored this pontoon boat but I'm using the original wiring plus wiring harness? Should I do this or should I completely strip everything out and rewire and run new wires to where I can actually understand how they have been ran plus I'd avoid fires 🔥 🤔! I'm all about TBNATION BUT MAKING IT HAPPEN ON A 16FT PONTOON BOAT! POSITIVE FEEDBACK WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!

That was a great video. The information was awesome. Thanks

That video really helped me out ty

Good job

Great video!

The best vidéo ! Thank’s

Nice work.

Awsome video

super informative thanks a ton man

Trying to get all the stuff connected directly to my cranking battery on the boat to a board. I order the Blue Sea 5025 St Blade Fuse Block W/Cover - 6 Circuit W/Negative Bus. I got a different one that only has positive. Not sure how your supposed to connect only the positive side of all your accessories so I'm returning that one. I ordered this other Blue Sea fuse block. Hopefully that will work. Our boat has hardly any room in the area where the battery is at. Have to route all the wires positive and negative to the Blue Sea Block. Every time I have to remove the battery it is a total nightmare to get all the wires back on the battery when I put it back in. Have had several times missed a wire that falls to the back and have even had to remove the battery to find the missing wire. So I am looking at installing the Blue Sea 5025 St Blade Fuse Block W/Cover - 6 Circuit W/Negative Bus when I get it. Not sure I even have anywhere to put a on / Off switch at the battery where I would hook onto the battery for the Blue Sea blade.

So helpful. Thank you very much.

Thanks for the video!

Thanks for the videos almost done with mine

Excellent video! Does anyone can help me to find out what size of fuse should I install to protect the possitive instalation of my boat? I have a 4 stroke Honda BF150HP ? thanks!!!

Oatmeal cream pies! A crucial element in boat wiring... DO NOT TRY IT WITHOUT THEM!

Im a commercial electrician but i have never worked on a before, but if you understand electricity you understand electricity. A friend called me and said she was watching TV on her boat for about an hour then all the power shut off and the individual breakers started reading reverse polarity. this should be impossible considering no work has been done. The main breaker has 120V to ground and is not reversed when i checked. I can see the hot coming off the main output into the input of the other breakers but i ran out of time and didnt check the reading, but im pretty sure its correct. What would be the next thing you would check? Im assuming its a equipment problem somewhere not a wiring problem

Awesome video really helpful!

Thanks again for the vlogs