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KYD516
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Initially Posted - 04/29/2005 :  09:24:21  Show Profile
How do most of you run the engine wires to your batteries?

I have a 9.9 Yamaha and the p/o ran the wire through a hole in the transom. I am not a big fan of holes in transoms and the new cables don't fit. So, I am wondering if someone has a better alternative. Perhaps through the shallow starboard-side cockpit locker? Also, do you run the thick/heavy engine cable all the way to the batteries or do you go to smaller ones along the way?
Aquila, rhymes w/ Tequila
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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 04/29/2005 :  15:50:35  Show Profile
My Yamaha 9.9 is mounted on the starboard side, I ran the power cable down the cowling into the space between the liner and the hull and then from there to the battery. Please do use heavy cable all the way.
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Happy D
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Response Posted - 04/30/2005 :  11:06:53  Show Profile
Here is a chart to help sigure what size wire you will need.
Also a ton of other information. Good Luck,
Dan
http://www.arcomarine.com/Page%2062.pdf
http://www.arcomarine.com/catalog.htm
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mwalkup
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Response Posted - 04/30/2005 :  11:54:38  Show Profile
Aquila,
This issue has come up alot latley it seem's.
Go to General Forum page 1 under Tohatsu 9.8 Dan86 and also
page 11 under connecting elec. engine mwalkup
should help.
Mike
83 tr/fk
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Dan86
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Response Posted - 05/01/2005 :  22:20:44  Show Profile
Hey Mike, I just had my two hour cruise to break in my tohatsu at low rpm, man that thing is quiet. I just pulled a battery out of the house bank and put it in the cockpit sole on our harbour cruise last night. I was thinkin, what if I partitioned off the gas locker in the port side by glassing in a partition with a gasget on the upper edge to match the shape of the lid completely sealing off the most forward edge for a small starting battery with the wires able to reach from the motor, and had the small tohatsu 3 gallon tank in the aft part of the compartment? I did not measure, however, the thought was there. The part about fumes building up would be negligible as I would have to open the lid anyway to run the gas line to the motor. What are your thoughts? Thanks
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matsche
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Response Posted - 05/02/2005 :  08:18:57  Show Profile
A source of gas fumes right next to a potential source of electrial sparks? Hmmmmm.... I'd re-think that if I were you.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/02/2005 :  11:23:53  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Both our gasline and our cables run through 2 through hulls on the Port Transom into the port locker. The electric carries on to a junction then on to the batteries. The gas goes to the gas shelf.

There is a cowling right there for ventilation and we have to open the locker to prime the outboard. I still wouldn't mind a blower, similar to a regular inboard.

dw
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