If you have any qualms about the mechanical security of the soldered-on
offstickers you could install a stainless spiral clamp over the soldered-on
offsticker then wrap everything up with electrical tape.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Julington Creek
30 07.695N 081 38.484W
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From:
To: [email protected]
Sent: 7/24/2008 11:13:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] 12 VDC buss
I've just gotten into this buss discussion (late) and may have missed
something, but I would have little concern about fire from shorts since your
hull is not fiberglass. Watching a fiberglass boat burn gives me nightmares and
cause for extreme wiring caution. The one thing that concerns me, and I may
have misunderstood something, but there seems to be no mechanical connection in
the "stick-on solder taps". You obviously have had no problem, but I would feel
better with wrapped wire, then soldered, or some type of mechanical clamp on
and soldered or something other than just stuck on soldered wire. That being
said, I marvel at the clever things that you have done for redundancy and
function in your boat, and I agree that it would be wonderful if you
would/could archive or produce a compilation of such for those of us that might
like to follow your lead. Maybe sell it to a magazine? We all have a tendency
to hook up commonly supplied components and not think "out of the box" !
as to the function and purpose. No one can ever say you think "in the box".
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Ed Schwerin
40 Hunter
North Carolina
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