Hi gang,
My wiring from engine to cockpit instrument panel is currently unprotected/unsupported/unbundled/etc. and is a mess in my engine compartment. I am thinking of adding terminal strips near the engine compartment or possibly behind the instrument panel to clean things up by providing wiring landing/jump-off points, and to give me an opportunity to re-route my wiring directly out of the engine compartment and have it travel under the quarter berth to the cockpit. I would need a couple of extra feet to do this.
The wiring appears to be in good shape and proper ABYC coloring as well--likely a rewire kit form MMI by a previous owner. Unfortunately there isn't enough slack to reroute the wiring out and back to the cockpit, and currently the wiring is poorly run without support and it free-hangs in air to the connections at engine.
Desired results: get most of wiring out of engine compartment heat/oil. Clean up engine compartment by properly bundling and routing the spaghetti monster into wire runs. Protect wire runs with conduit mounted underneath qtr berth. Gain needed wire length by adding wiring on to end with a terminal strip near engine compartment or in cockpit lazarette.
Is this a proper use of terminal blocks? Any suggestions to go with this project as well?
See the attached drawing showing the existing wiring runs in red, and the proposed re-routing in green--down other side of engine compartment wall, under qtr berth.
How about replacing all the inline fuses with an ignition protected fuse block like the Blue Seas SafetyHub 150 Fuse Block (PN 7748)?
Thanks for the discerning eye,
Jonny
My wiring from engine to cockpit instrument panel is currently unprotected/unsupported/unbundled/etc. and is a mess in my engine compartment. I am thinking of adding terminal strips near the engine compartment or possibly behind the instrument panel to clean things up by providing wiring landing/jump-off points, and to give me an opportunity to re-route my wiring directly out of the engine compartment and have it travel under the quarter berth to the cockpit. I would need a couple of extra feet to do this.
The wiring appears to be in good shape and proper ABYC coloring as well--likely a rewire kit form MMI by a previous owner. Unfortunately there isn't enough slack to reroute the wiring out and back to the cockpit, and currently the wiring is poorly run without support and it free-hangs in air to the connections at engine.
Desired results: get most of wiring out of engine compartment heat/oil. Clean up engine compartment by properly bundling and routing the spaghetti monster into wire runs. Protect wire runs with conduit mounted underneath qtr berth. Gain needed wire length by adding wiring on to end with a terminal strip near engine compartment or in cockpit lazarette.
Is this a proper use of terminal blocks? Any suggestions to go with this project as well?
See the attached drawing showing the existing wiring runs in red, and the proposed re-routing in green--down other side of engine compartment wall, under qtr berth.
How about replacing all the inline fuses with an ignition protected fuse block like the Blue Seas SafetyHub 150 Fuse Block (PN 7748)?
Thanks for the discerning eye,
Jonny
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