Boat Wiring Tips .

Boat Wiring Tips

Doing electrical wiring on a boat one would be straight forward. Here are a few tips that can help. There is a difference in the wire you buy. The wire sold at a marine store for boats will not corrode as easily. That is the main reason it is higher in price than what you get at a hardware store. 

You need to use crimp connectors to make the connections, not wire nuts. Also use the right size connectors for the size or gage of wire you are using.  They give a much stronger connection when the right sizes are used.  You can also get the crimp connectors that are made with heat shrink plastic. After they are crimped on the wire you can use a heat gun and shrink the plastic so it makes a water proof connection.

If you are using male and female connectors so the connections can be taken apart, put the set on the plus side going one way and the ones on the negative side going the other way. That way you cannot accidently plug the wires in with the wrong polarity. Try to always use the same direction on the sets on the positive wires and the negative wires. This gives you an easy heads up on whether the wire is plus or negative even if the wire become discolored.

This also helps if the lead wires of the thing you are installing have a different color scheme then what is in your boat.  

Use wire ties to bundle and secure your wiring. That way they don’t get damaged as easily.