blue sea "add a battery" kit...help!

[dsmracer]

ok so what your saying is pretty much I'm going to have to rewire everything i want on the house battery? is there an easier way? I just want everything to run off the house battery and have the separate starting battery.

[Ruger761]

On our year boats if your talking the breakers on the dash it pulls off of the ignition wire. I added a new House fuse panel and then rewired the items I wanted to get off of the starting battery when I put in my Battery kit. Kind of a pain but it sets it up the way I wanted it.


new wiring.pdf

[dsmracer]

i guess what isn't making sense to me is the wire that runs to the fuse panel....i don't know where that is....on my current one battery setup the 2ga starter wire is the only thing hooked up to the battery, nothing else.

[Greeko]

You hook 1B to the power (battery+)
Connect 1A to the wire that used to be connected to your power (battery+)... Im guessing this is the wire going to your fuse panel

Just think of 1A and 1B as a Light Switch. You want to put it in between the power and loads... Make sense?

[dsmracer]

ok so looking at the diagram and what I see in my boat, my switch has 4 posts on the back. is only 3 of those posts going to be used? I have the starter wire going into #2a post on the switch and the start battery on the #2b post. the house battery then goes on #1b post and #1a post shows to the house loads....well where is the line going to the house loads? will i not have anything on that post? I'm kind of lost, maybe this is so easy i just don't get it! I will be wiring in an amp on this so would that go to the #1a post on the switch? Where is the main power wire for the house loads such as the CD player and all of the other electronics? BTW this is going in a 1998 time pre2050wt...