Hi, Sorry if I misled you. The terminal strip is for the bonding system, green wire only. If you use a 12 screw terminal strip, hook the wire from the house zinc to the terminal post on the terminal strip by the transom. Then you can run a separate #8 green TINED wires from the 12 different screws on the strip to the things you want to bond. Some people run one wire to lets say a thru hull. Then they join the next wire at the thru hull to go someplace else. If the connection is lost because of corrosion or a poor connection at that thru hull, you loose your bonding from that point on. You use a lot more wire, but it is a lot safer way to bond. Capt Perry.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of BoatRDavid Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:50 PM To: UnifliteWorld Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Re: Bonding I'm fairly sure that I was tought that the AC ground should never be connected to the DC ground (your bonding system). DavidO On Oct 21, 10:24 am, [email protected] wrote: > All that sounds good. > > I would serges you put a theminal strip ware the bonding wire is hooked to the house zinc. then run a lot of separate #8 wire to each component from the teminal strip. This way if there is a brake in the wire, it will not effect the rest of the sys. Also connect a jumper wire to some other pieces that are bonded for extra security > > Capt. > > Perry > Oct 21, 2009 12:34:22 PM,[email protected] wrote: > > > After some research this is how I am going to set up my bonding. What > do you guys think? Daisy chain #8green marine grade wire from > starboard engine -shaft log -strut - fuel deck fill - fuel filter > housing - sea cock - rudder- trim tab-one side of large zinc plate on > transom. Same thing down the port side but and sea cocks in the center > of the boat. I will also be running a wire from the grounding bus of > the AC panel to the bonding system and wire from the grounding bus on > my new dc panel either to the bonding system or to the grounding bus > on the AC panel(shouldn’t matter if because AC panel is already > connected to bonding system) I will also run grounds from VHF and > other electronics to the ground bus on the dc panel. I have recherché > that the proper way to bond involves using on long no insulated strip > down the center of the boat and branching out from there but I would > prefer to do it as I described above, how are your boats set up? Does > anyone run some sort of brush system to better bond your props and > shafts? > Thanks, > Matt No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.24/2449 - Release Date: 10/20/09 18:42:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
