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You want a "modern" unit that won't flash off while switching from 1-Both-2 because you can fry your alternator's diode(s);
The DC panel breaker has different purposes -- I'm not sure it should be as low as 50 amps at 12 volts, even though you don't tend to draw that much. Do you have an inverter?
I'm not sure if you have another engine starter battery, but that's another issue that you'd need to protect (you dont' want to be powering your starter from a 50 amp breaker.
Your batteries, if something happens with a short will doing all kinds of things to one another and the connections betwen them and the gound.
If you have a distance issue, use a properly sized fuse between the batteries, the beefy cables needed, and the switch(es).
Don't you have a Sabre?
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- Battery selector switch idea.
- Safety switch?
- Can you relocate your switch?
- As Brian and others have suggested, proper disconnect is really the way to go.
- I must be missing something?
- You had a disconnect 1-both-2 or off?
- You should, beyond a fuse, be able to kill the power delivered from the batteries to ALL devices downstream
- SG thank you for your input
- All devices... what about bilge pump?
- A fuse that is above the cockpit sole would be a good idea.
- Gene, I would install a switch and a fuse
- Alarm and counter too...
- Yes, definately an alarm. When things are going
- In the end, not much will save you if the 'hole' is beyond an inch or so.
- In the end, not much will save you if the 'hole' is beyond an inch or so.
- I look at a counter as a necessity
- Yes, definately an alarm. When things are going
- Alarm and counter too...
- You had a disconnect 1-both-2 or off?
- boat is a Coast 34
- I must be missing something?
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