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• Battery selector switch idea.
  • Safety switch?
    • David, perhaps I can clarify
      • Does your panel have....
        • Yes Brian a master breaker is what I am installing
  • Can you relocate your switch?
    • I could but
  • 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?
        • Yes that is correct
      • 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
          • Does it disconnect the batteries from the engine and everything else?
          • How much is the blue seas breaker and box?
          • You could draw a multiple of 50 Amps momentarily to start the engine
        • All devices... what about bilge pump?
          • A fuse that is above the cockpit sole would be a good idea.
            • I have a direct wired BP, and it has drained a battery, more than once.
              • Good point on the short cycling drawing things down.
            • Mechanical Bilge Pump Switches SUCK! IMHO
              • Main problem is...
                • Well, that's something I never thought about but
              • I have had success with the Witch electronic switch....
          • 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.
                  • Yes... I've noticed that when swaping out the speedo impeller...
                  • You're probibly right. I'm an advocate of
                    • Repairing the rudder
                      • Aftermath, Benny and Ann. We were
                        • Great story! We had time to power 3000 feet, then the motor went under water.
                          • That kind of stuff makes MEN! Truly, it's
                            • I was going to ask you but hit enter to soon. How
                              • I've dodged a lot of bullets myself, but this one hit me right between the eyes.
                                • Wow! Catastrophic.
                                • Oh... That would spoil your entire day!
                      • Aftermath, Benny and Ann. We were all
                        • Later, me on the left helping Benny
              • I look at a counter as a necessity
                • An audible alarm works for me...
                  • Shower water into the bilge?
                    • My previous owner actually drilled a hole in the shower pan
                      • Mine has a drain...
                        • Brian, I suppos that if you didn't live aboard and having two of us shower
                          • I hear ya...
                            • So you shunned being a dirt dweller as well.
                              • We are dirt dwellers now...
                    • Tried several alternatives...
    • boat is a Coast 34