Making Your Own Battery Cables
Pick Your Crimp Tool FTZ 94284 & Ancor Hammer Crimper TEMCO TH0005 & FTZ Bench Mount BUY FTZ 94284 CRIMP TOOL - [...]
Pick Your Crimp Tool FTZ 94284 & Ancor Hammer Crimper TEMCO TH0005 & FTZ Bench Mount BUY FTZ 94284 CRIMP TOOL - [...]
If You Don't Know How to Solder..... If you really don't know how to solder a VHF PL259 connector there are other options as you'll see below. This one is laughable, except that when this owner needed his VHF it was no joke or laughing matter that it failed to transmit. The previous owner or perhaps even a boat yard employee decided that solder on the shield for the VHF cable was optional. It worked for a short while, rather weakly, and then failed all together. Those holes are where the solder would go to contact the shield or braided portion of the coax cable.
Old Transducer Coax Cable Preface: This article assumes you're vessel is not yet into the 21st century with regard to your [...]
SmartPlug vs. 1938 In today's day and age it is far and few between that I come across products that: #1 [...]
Voltage Transients in Marine Electrical Systems I had been meaning to put this together for a while and assembled a system for [...]
Marine Wire Termination - Tools of the Trade MHT Recommended Tools: The products below are our top picks for crimp [...]
DIY LiFePo4 On Boats Last edit;3/26/23:The base of this article was written a number of years ago (2010) but this does not mean [...]
Do I Need A Solar Charge Controller? I get asked this question quite often and the answer is almost always a resounding, yes. [...]
Battery Monitor Diagram This article features the older Victron BMV-602. The 602 has been replaced by the BMV-7oo series. Everything in this article [...]
Program The Ah Capacity This article features the older Victron BMV-602. The 602 has been replaced by the BMV-7oo series (700, 702 & [...]
Solar Testing MPPT vs. PWM In the spring of 2014, early May to be exact, I set up a series of tests to [...]
The Wire That Caused Years Worth Of Expenses So I get called to winterize a new customers boat and it has [...]
Light Cycle vs. Deeper Cycle NOTE: This article deals with FLOODED marine batteries, not AGM or GEL batteries. The Problem: The problem, as [...]
Regulator Sensing Voltage at Alternator End The topic of wiring a high performance alternator regulator, and doing it correctly, comes up a lot. [...]
20 Hour Capacity Test Results PUBLIC APOLOGY: First let me begin this by eating some public CROW. Over the years I have recommended [...]
Empty - Arm Down = 240 Ohms The fuel sender, for the typical US standard used in a marine application, is a simple [...]