I installed two blade-type fuse blocks behind my electrical panel, one before the House main breaker and one after. One of the fused circuits ahead of the house breaker is for the "always on" lead to the stereo. Then all the settings will stay live (unless I disconnect the battery, which I do as part of winterizing). That circuit only pulls a few milliamps of power, so it would take a LONG time to flatten two 6V golf cart batteries wired in series (about 200 amp-hours total)...
Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On May 8, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Stevan Plavsa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All. > > I've gone ahead and hooked up a kenwood car stereo in my 32. I like to think > I did a pretty neat install. I removed the cross member at the top of the nav > station, cut a hole in it for the deck and reassembled. It looks "factory", > you know, if they installed disco light stereos back in 1980. What is it with > the current manufacturers making all of the car stereos ugly as sin these > days? Anyway, I digress.. > > > How many of you keep the yellow (constant 12V) hooked up to the battery at > all times? > > The reason I ask is not because of the radio stations .. it's because it's a > bluetooth deck and when you cut power to it entirely it forgets all the > settings and that's a pain in the ass to do every time. Anyway, I can > conveniently stream music from my phone and have it play in the cockpit or > cabin or both .. it's pretty sweet. > > Once I recover from the spring spend I'll be installing a 100 Watt solar > panel on top of the bimini .. but for now, I'm on a mooring and I don't want > to kill my battery.
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