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Initially Posted - 02/28/2005 : 10:53:32
</li><li>We removed all cable hangers and tie wraps and wrote everything on the manual copy so later we know what goes where. After a while we gave up on trying to asses the status of the wiring and the crimp connectors and cut the wires to the stereo, VHF and the instruments at both ends and decided to re-wire.</li><li>Time to figure out the boat wiring, ended up removing both galley cabinets to see what goes where. It seems the mast wiring is in a big brown (4x14 or16?) cable snaked through the engine compartment, behind the galley, through the top of the bilge (and presumably up the compression post). The good news was when we un-snaked all that there was plenty cable to reach the new panel position so we do not need to extend those wires. The bad news is it did not reach far enough to get rid of the nastiest bend in the cable, so we need to test that further.</li><li>The running+cabin lights bundle was another story. It seemed to be wound in electrical tape through-out the whole boat. I used to work in a place that also made car wiring harnesses. They used what looked like electrical tape without the glue; which works fine if you wind it tight. Reason being after a few years the glue fails anyway and all you have is gunk (now imagine after 16 years). Again the good news was by the time I un-snaked the bundle out of the engine compartment and the lazarette it reached the new panel location.</li><li> In the lazarette the shore power wiring and the 12V wiring was all mixed up and in places pulled tight against each other. I may be new to boat electrics but I did not like that. [<i>Side bar: with the batteries completely disconnected an the charger unplugged I kept working in the boat and later the lazarette until I realized I was yank-testing shore power wiring with the shore power plugged in. I froze mid wiggle with metal tool in other hand and teeth and had to yell for the admiral to unplug before her idiotic beloved fried hisself</i>]</li><li> and One more rant: speaking of electrical tape, there was way too much everywhere (the battery terminals, every crimp terminal, some bundles were all wrapped in generous amounts of black tape with gunk. Someone recently referred to 5200 as "<insert expletive>-the-next-guy-in-a-tube"; well in my book electrical tape is "<insert expletive>-the-next-guy-in-a-roll"</li></ul>
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