Blue sea add a battery dual battery setup . Show us yours

[MLA]

Below your text on the above diagram, you wrote "where does this go". Under that, is a line drawn to a threaded post on the switch. Thats for the things you want to draw off the house bank. Beyond amps and stereo, theres lights, blower, bilge, ballast pumps, etc. All are house loads.

[C_Heath]

Below your text on the above diagram, you wrote "where does this go". Under that, is a line drawn to a threaded post on the switch. Thats for the things you want to draw off the house bank. Beyond amps and stereo, theres lights, blower, bilge, ballast pumps, etc. All are house loads.

I get what you are saying but I don’t know how to physically connect it to the house loads. Sorry man.

[functionoverfashion]

Basically you need to run a wire to a distribution panel with fuses or breakers, and/or switches, to any accessories you want to run off that battery. Since your boat already has a fuse/breaker panel for accessories, for those you could just find the main power feed wire to that panel and run that back to your switch on the house side (or run a new one). For anything you're adding, you'd need a simple fuse or breaker panel. A lot of people build a panel out of plywood that holds amps and a fuse/breaker panel along with any other relevant wiring, all neatly tucked away under the observer's seat or something. It's no doubt a lot of work, but worth it when your boat never has a dead battery and all your electrical stuff just works.

With your '99, do you have the push-button breakers on the dash? Or do you have a keypad type thing? That will change things a bit, but the concept is more or less the same.

[C_Heath]

Basically you need to run a wire to a distribution panel with fuses or breakers, and/or switches, to any accessories you want to run off that battery. Since your boat already has a fuse/breaker panel for accessories, for those you could just find the main power feed wire to that panel and run that back to your switch on the house side (or run a new one). For anything you're adding, you'd need a simple fuse or breaker panel. A lot of people build a panel out of plywood that holds amps and a fuse/breaker panel along with any other relevant wiring, all neatly tucked away under the observer's seat or something. It's no doubt a lot of work, but worth it when your boat never has a dead battery and all your electrical stuff just works.

With your '99, do you have the push-button breakers on the dash? Or do you have a keypad type thing? That will change things a bit, but the concept is more or less the same.

thanks a lot. I have the keypads on each side of the steering wheel. Under neath the helm is the PME which houses the push in breakers. I have no other switches on the dash except for the ones on the key pads.