Best demonstration I have seen as yet. You begin with an exp and simple diagram. You showed the size of wire and why. You showed and listed the components plus the tools for wiring connections. You explained what products are to be used where and why. You left no need to out no matter what level of knowledge the viewer had. Good job, your parents raised you right and your teachers did a good job too. Give yourself a raise. Oh and not only did you master your trade, you mastered how to do video production in an organized manner. Most importantly you care enough about your fellow humans to want to share what you have learned on your particular path of life. Some think kept knowledge is power. They are wrong. Shared knowledge benefits us all.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. No filler, just good information delivered perfectly. I've been looking to re-wire my boat and most of what I've seen isn't this clear. Subscribed, liked and commented.
Excellent...EXCELLENT video Tony...the best I've found. Learned a bunch of new stuff & made it easy to follow along. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. You build an amazing boat!
Kudos to you brother!!! Best diy wiring description video I have ever watched. Thank you for this awesome video man. Very glad I found this. Beautiful work btw. Ill be sharing my video of my complete re-wiring on my 25' SeaRay Salmon Fishing boat in the spring and I will most certainly be saving this video to go back to while I'm doing it. Ryan, Ludington, Mi
Great video! I believe the best safety precaution would be adding a fuse within 7 inches from the battery on the positive side, then the switch. ABYC standard. Great channel and thank you!
This was beyond excellent. I'm new to living near a lake, from a city, and have kids who need to learn to fish. Oh, the rabbit hole I've fallen down, but this is excellent.
You are a bad boy! You definitely know what you are doing. Before you retire, I have to get a boat done by you. Great content. Please keep up the amazing work!
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing! When doing 2-to-1 connections I would add a bit of liquid tape on the two-wire side as the heat shrink tube cannot seal against water.
Great video! I broke a bunch of switches pulling pins.. doah! One option is to run those leads to the first switch so you can turn that indicator light on or off.
Great video. You could wire the small lights on the switches with the interior lights. That way when the interior lights are on so are the small lights in the switches.
The small lights are designed for that wire to hook to the accessorie side of a ignition switch. That way there's only power when the key is on. Usually, there's a main power wire to battery to power the switches, then that light wire goes to ignition or headlight switch. Easy to eliminate though since it's a boat and not a vehicle.
This is so much nicer than the often seen random not-working, inproperly-grounded, rats nest of nonsense that only works to operate one of the 6 things it should! Or is that only on my boats? 😆
Great vid Anthony, yhanks. Just finishing up my pontoon and now I’m watching your vid.🙄🙄 but happy to say I’ve done the wiring very similar to the way you’ve done your boat. But what I didn’t do was check my circuits as I’m going along. I was under the impression the battery had to be disconnected so no sparking when you’re wiring up a circuit? Cheers my friend…
Just found your channel here, or re-found it. Don't have my aluminum no more, but will be re-doing what I do have. It'sa 16' fiberglass Ebbtide Dyna-craft 160. needs some TLC in a few areas, wiring being one of them. I plan on following the KISS method and Keep it all simple. Hopefully starting on it soon.
Thank you so much for this video and making it easy to navigate through different parts of it as well. Definitely what I’m using as I do some affine on my boat next week.
I've got a 15' aluminum v hull i just want to put nav lights and bilge pump on a switch panel i watched this entire video and its like nothing stuck in my head. Electrical is not my thing 😅 You do amazing work tho I'm gonna save this video and watch again when i feel up to tackling my small project. Thanks.
Thank you so much for the video. I have a boat with a 24V for my outboard and a dedicated 12v for my trolling motor and bow fishfinder and nav light. Do you think its a better idea to have my accessories linked to my 12v or to my outboard 24v? what are the pros and cons of each?
Fully agree! And when people see the clean hidden things it builds confidence everything else that isn't seen or covered up was put together in a quality manner.
Beautiful work man. For your switch panel, I've had a lot of luck with the blue sea systems weather deck (fused) switch panel. It has the fuses integrated into the switch panel, and it's super high quality. All you need to do is run a bus bar for the negatives. I've used it on many ORV builds, and several boats (including mine) and it works great, might be worth you checking out. Keep up the great work man.
Appreciate the feedback! Definitely could have used something like that in the boat in video as it was a bit more high end. I started with a lot of the parts in the video due to jon boats being more budget oriented. I'm beginning to branch out and try different things and parts in different price points. I'll look into what you suggested.
Thanks cuz. I've been wanting to do an updated wiring video for a while now. Kept putting it off. You can see why from the video, it was a lot of work to film!
Your video is a great help for my rewiring project, thanks! Can I use 10 gauge wire instead og 8 gauge, to run from the battery to my kill switch/fuse panel? Thx
Hi I’m in the process of working my boat and it previously had a really for the bilge pump and aerator do I need to install new relays when wiring or do I just run it through a fuse like you did? Thanks.
The most informative video I’ve seen, great job. Everything I’ve done in the past I’ve soldered, I’m curious to know what ur thoughts are on the difference between that or using the but connectors you’ve used in this video
Thanks! I used to use solder connectors but ive found the crimp and heat shrink ones i use now to give a great connection, very solid finish. Less issues on install and quicker job. Just a preference
Anthony, where do you get your ABS carbon fiber wall from? That stuff looks sick! I'm looking to make my own switch panel setup and need something to mount all my components on.
Great video! you should do a video on batteries. other than the cost difference. why choose lithium battery. What is the advantage over an old school battery. Are they wired differently, is the charging different.
Question.. if you don’t remove the jumpers behind the toggle switches you run the + & - to the fuse box? From there you run the - from the accessory and it goes to the fuse box and the + goes behind the toggle switch?
If you do it that way, what happens is you can't individually fuse your accessories. Your switch panel itself would be fused as a single accessory and act as a "jumper" for your accessories. At that rate you might as well run inline fuses on everything and not use a fusebox at all, which is obviously not how I do it based off my video.
How would you or can't you have two batteries, two Motors, both or each can start, the electronics and isolate both when not used, also shutoff switches.
Is it possible to run a jumper between more than one switch and run that back to the buss bar rather than having a single jumper to the fuse block for each switch?
I don't. I never have. Everything is grounded to the negative bus bar, which connects to the negative on the battery. Grounding stuff to the hull is lazy, and long-term can cause hull damage and pitting from electrolysis. Also, good luck trying to troubleshoot wiring when grounding to the hull. I spent many hours tracing leads in a Basstracker build, and things were grounded to the hull, creating a lot of problems troubleshooting what was what. It's just not a professional way of doing it, in my opinion, and there no reason for it if grounded to the battery properly.
Really great video but I have a question. If you didn’t remove the original jumpers on the switch panel (keeping the lower LED on the switch on) how do you run your accessory hot to the switch and then to the fuse box with only one available pin? Is there a butt connection somewhere? Thanks for doing these step by step videos!!
Each individual switch will have 3 pins used in back. 1- accesory coming in, positive. 2- positive jump from switch to fuse box 3- The negative jump (all negatives on switches jumped together and ran as one to negative on fuse box)
Great video, I appreciate the content. The diagram you drew was definitely helpful. If I have a on board charger where should I set it up at? Also will the kill switch support the on board charger?
On board charger just connects to the batteries then you plug it into a electrical plug. Doesn't have anything to do with boat wiring, fuses, or kill switches
Custom sea dek routed jobs like this one charge based on square footage, how many layers of color, and depth of routed details. I don't get directly from sea dek as they do not do custom routered jobs, i get from their authorized dealer. Jobs vary but are typically 2-3 grand.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats Okay, i was just curious. I am adding lights to my truck and doing so, but i guess there is no real need on a small boat. Still got to run the wires, no sense in adding additional components to mess up. Thanks for the reply. it is a good and informative video. I am planning to build a cabin boat from an 18 foot starcraft and your video is certainly helping me plan the wiring. thanks for sharing it.
I don’t even own a boat (yet) and somehow I’ve spent the last 40+ minutes watching a video on boat wiring. Very well done!
Much appreciated! Hopefully this will help if you ever get a boat.
Same
Best demonstration I have seen as yet. You begin with an exp and simple diagram. You showed the size of wire and why. You showed and listed the components plus the tools for wiring connections. You explained what products are to be used where and why. You left no need to out no matter what level of knowledge the viewer had. Good job, your parents raised you right and your teachers did a good job too. Give yourself a raise. Oh and not only did you master your trade, you mastered how to do video production in an organized manner. Most importantly you care enough about your fellow humans to want to share what you have learned on your particular path of life. Some think kept knowledge is power. They are wrong. Shared knowledge benefits us all.
I'm an incompetent mess, trying to build out a nice duck boat. Can't tell you how grateful I am for your videos.
So real
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. No filler, just good information delivered perfectly. I've been looking to re-wire my boat and most of what I've seen isn't this clear. Subscribed, liked and commented.
Want to say thank you. Found this extremely helpful. Was looking for awhile and nobody explains life you. So again thank you for your help
Excellent...EXCELLENT video Tony...the best I've found. Learned a bunch of new stuff & made it easy to follow along. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. You build an amazing boat!
Thanks!
Subbed.
This video was super helpful, instructional without being boring, educational while being entertaining.
Great job!
Kudos to you brother!!! Best diy wiring description video I have ever watched. Thank you for this awesome video man. Very glad I found this. Beautiful work btw. Ill be sharing my video of my complete re-wiring on my 25' SeaRay Salmon Fishing boat in the spring and I will most certainly be saving this video to go back to while I'm doing it. Ryan, Ludington, Mi
Video really helped me out thanks brother and showing how you route everything and you take the time to explain everything!
No problem thanks for positive feedback cuz
Great video! I believe the best safety precaution would be adding a fuse within 7 inches from the battery on the positive side, then the switch. ABYC standard. Great channel and thank you!
You are correct. Sorry I left that out. Thanks
@Anthony Jones thank you for pointing that out I have really no idea on my project trying to learn from you tube
How big should that fuse 7 inches from battery going into kill switch be
Probably the best boat wiring video I have seen and Ive seen a lot, very thorough, thank you!
That means a lot, thank you!
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats What label maker do you use?
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats What label maker do you use!?
This was beyond excellent. I'm new to living near a lake, from a city, and have kids who need to learn to fish. Oh, the rabbit hole I've fallen down, but this is excellent.
Much appreciated. Thanks for dropping by the channel. Welcome to the club!
Awesome video on many aspects. Learned more about electricity and how to do what I wanted to do just in this video alone. Thanks for sharing.
Outstanding video...thank you for taking the time to do this for your viewers...really appreciate it my friend!
No problem 👍
You are a bad boy! You definitely know what you are doing. Before you retire, I have to get a boat done by you. Great content. Please keep up the amazing work!
Will do my friend! I'm not going anywhere. Thanks for the support, perhaps one day we can cross paths on a project.
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing!
When doing 2-to-1 connections I would add a bit of liquid tape on the two-wire side as the heat shrink tube cannot seal against water.
I'm going to be rewiring my boat this spring. Great video, explained your steps great.
@19:04 whats that tackle storage rack? Custom fabrication?
Great video! I broke a bunch of switches pulling pins.. doah! One option is to run those leads to the first switch so you can turn that indicator light on or off.
You definitely can and I actually did that once. It just takes up a switch spot.
This video was AMAZING! Thank you for the detail. Great job and amazing build.
thank you, i really learned alot. Rewiring my boat, i think im ready! :D
Thanks!
Wow, just wow, incredible video and what an amazing job. I wish I could have you hookup the lights on my boat, it would be a dream come true!
Thanks man! Where you at? Im in Georgia cuz
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats Actually TN, but when I said dream I meant that I probably couldn't afford your fabulous work. :)
Great video. You could wire the small lights on the switches with the interior lights. That way when the interior lights are on so are the small lights in the switches.
Most definitely! Just trying to keep the process simple but absolutely an option.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
The small lights are designed for that wire to hook to the accessorie side of a ignition switch. That way there's only power when the key is on. Usually, there's a main power wire to battery to power the switches, then that light wire goes to ignition or headlight switch. Easy to eliminate though since it's a boat and not a vehicle.
absolutely professional guide. I love your vids bud. Not sure if boat conversion is your full time job but I can see it can be easily.
This is so much nicer than the often seen random not-working, inproperly-grounded, rats nest of nonsense that only works to operate one of the 6 things it should! Or is that only on my boats? 😆
Haha! I've seen some crazy bad stuff, I know your only kidding lol. I've actually seen household outlets wired in a jon boat, that kinda blew my mind.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats I'm sure you've seen it all! - great video and well done!
Not yet! Still feel like I'm just getting started! Thanks again fir tge feedback and support!
😂 we must have the same boat!!
Great vid Anthony, yhanks. Just finishing up my pontoon and now I’m watching your vid.🙄🙄 but happy to say I’ve done the wiring very similar to the way you’ve done your boat. But what I didn’t do was check my circuits as I’m going along. I was under the impression the battery had to be disconnected so no sparking when you’re wiring up a circuit? Cheers my friend…
Just found your channel here, or re-found it. Don't have my aluminum no more, but will be re-doing what I do have. It'sa 16' fiberglass Ebbtide Dyna-craft 160. needs some TLC in a few areas, wiring being one of them. I plan on following the KISS method and Keep it all simple. Hopefully starting on it soon.
Finally a wiring video I've been looking for
Hope it helps. Thanks
Thank you so much for this video and making it easy to navigate through different parts of it as well. Definitely what I’m using as I do some affine on my boat next week.
Nice video. Helped me visualize everything alot better
What an amazing build and informative video. 👍
Much appreciated 👊
Thanks for the video. I'm Looking for a switch Label Printer. Can you tell me the one you use?
What a brilliant video and a big help cheers mate from Scotland
thanks for the support
Outstanding content. Thank you so much for taking the time creating these resources.
Thanks for feedback and watching.
amazing video dude, this is really well made and everything is explained amazingly. This was such a big help.
Good to hear man! Thanks
I've got a 15' aluminum v hull i just want to put nav lights and bilge pump on a switch panel i watched this entire video and its like nothing stuck in my head. Electrical is not my thing 😅 You do amazing work tho I'm gonna save this video and watch again when i feel up to tackling my small project. Thanks.
What hangers are you using to hang your tools?
Thanks for the video👍
thanks for watching!
Awesome . Even though I know how too I still watched the whole video . Nice job on explaining
Awesome, thank you!
This is a very awesome video well explained thank you
Very helpful!! Can I use 14 gagefor all the basic wiring, Example, lights, horn, bilge? Bob
Great video! Super clean. Saving this video for future use.
Nice! Appreciate the feedback.
Thank you so much for the video. I have a boat with a 24V for my outboard and a dedicated 12v for my trolling motor and bow fishfinder and nav light. Do you think its a better idea to have my accessories linked to my 12v or to my outboard 24v? what are the pros and cons of each?
Even though it's rarely seen it think a neat ,clean ,sanitary electrical system shows pride in your craftsmanship
Fully agree! And when people see the clean hidden things it builds confidence everything else that isn't seen or covered up was put together in a quality manner.
Did you fit a main fuse to your main feed??
This video was awesome. Thanks.
Great video alot good info learned alot thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Nice bro you’ve got some skills
where do you get the tackle tray? Its nice to see someone that does quality work. I love all of the attention to detail
Pure awesomeness Anthony😊
Thank you👊
Great video - thanks! Where did you get the switch panel blank?
I made it. It's sheet aluminum, i cut out all the holes and squares for the switches, wrapped in carbon fiber vinyl
Does a hairdryer work instead of a heat gun?
How far can you have the switch panel from the fuse panel?
Beautiful work man. For your switch panel, I've had a lot of luck with the blue sea systems weather deck (fused) switch panel. It has the fuses integrated into the switch panel, and it's super high quality. All you need to do is run a bus bar for the negatives. I've used it on many ORV builds, and several boats (including mine) and it works great, might be worth you checking out. Keep up the great work man.
Appreciate the feedback! Definitely could have used something like that in the boat in video as it was a bit more high end. I started with a lot of the parts in the video due to jon boats being more budget oriented. I'm beginning to branch out and try different things and parts in different price points. I'll look into what you suggested.
What a great video; wish I had this when I did my boat ! Super helpful 🙌🏽
Thanks cuz. I've been wanting to do an updated wiring video for a while now. Kept putting it off. You can see why from the video, it was a lot of work to film!
Thank you very helpful, much appreciated 👍🏻👍🏻
No problem 👍
Your video is a great help for my rewiring project, thanks!
Can I use 10 gauge wire instead og 8 gauge, to run from the battery to my kill switch/fuse panel? Thx
Great video! Keep up the outstanding work!
Thanks! Will do.
great video loved the diagrams with explanations
Glad to hear it!
Hi I’m in the process of working my boat and it previously had a really for the bilge pump and aerator do I need to install new relays when wiring or do I just run it through a fuse like you did? Thanks.
The most informative video I’ve seen, great job. Everything I’ve done in the past I’ve soldered, I’m curious to know what ur thoughts are on the difference between that or using the but connectors you’ve used in this video
Thanks! I used to use solder connectors but ive found the crimp and heat shrink ones i use now to give a great connection, very solid finish. Less issues on install and quicker job. Just a preference
What fuse did u use for nav lights
Great video! Just wondering what is that material you made the panel for everything to mount to?
Is everything grounded from just that 1 ground wire at the end of switch panel?
Para mi usted es el mejor haciendo su trabajo👊💪 y mi bote favorito el que me enamoro fue el rojo😮ese bote quedo increíblemente hermoso💪👌👊
Anthony, where do you get your ABS carbon fiber wall from? That stuff looks sick! I'm looking to make my own switch panel setup and need something to mount all my components on.
Will you have to charge your battery after a while or buy another one?
what size breaker do you use for a 56amp draw trolling motor?
Great video! you should do a video on batteries. other than the cost difference. why choose lithium battery. What is the advantage over an old school battery. Are they wired differently, is the charging different.
They usually have a longer run time, and also way lighter. Weight reduction is always good on a boat.
Excellent work Anthony thanks
Much appreciated
How are you dealing with switches, fuses and wiring for sonars and trolling motor to complement the accessory setup?
Question.. if you don’t remove the jumpers behind the toggle switches you run the + & - to the fuse box? From there you run the - from the accessory and it goes to the fuse box and the + goes behind the toggle switch?
If you do it that way, what happens is you can't individually fuse your accessories. Your switch panel itself would be fused as a single accessory and act as a "jumper" for your accessories. At that rate you might as well run inline fuses on everything and not use a fusebox at all, which is obviously not how I do it based off my video.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats ok thanks for the clarification.
I just got a 12ft v shaped aluminum boat looking to get it redone like this. How much would it all cost
All
Your contents so educational.. I love it
Thanks so much man, i try!
Would it be fine for me to run this exact setup but attach the boat motor directly to the battery?
Did you not have to put a fuse on the positive coming into the fuse block?
no fuse, you can do a 50amp circuit breaker if you want
How would you or can't you have two batteries, two Motors, both or each can start, the electronics and isolate both when not used, also shutoff switches.
Where did you get the dividers for the tackle box storage? I am trying to find somewhere that makes them
I would contact Nate at Tiny Boat Nation Midwest. He knows the guy who made them. I got from Nate.
Great work!!
How would u wire in an onboard charger
where did you get hatches from ?
tbnation.net/products/dry-storage-hatch-lid-pre-built?ref=builtforbattle&variant=34476167331975
Great guide. I'm making plan to rewire my boat, I assume you use 14 AWG wire from fuse box to accessories? Thanks
Yes. I just order it by the roll. Overkill for sime if the accessories but I'd rather have thicker wire than not enough. Thanks for watching.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats thanks for the help. Please do ACR dual battery set up 😁
12:30 My OCD brain shorted out when you put the bilge pump on fuse 10 but connected it to switch 1. 😋
The fuse box gets custom printed labels at the end indicating which fuse is what accessory
Great work AJ - nice on the editing as well. Watched every second. I am truly impressed.
Thanks so much for the kind words,glad you enjoyed!
Is it possible to run a jumper between more than one switch and run that back to the buss bar rather than having a single jumper to the fuse block for each switch?
No because then all your accessories would be on one fuse.
Might be a stupid question but do you have to ground to the boat? I was reading a comment below but not sure I understand.
I don't. I never have. Everything is grounded to the negative bus bar, which connects to the negative on the battery. Grounding stuff to the hull is lazy, and long-term can cause hull damage and pitting from electrolysis. Also, good luck trying to troubleshoot wiring when grounding to the hull. I spent many hours tracing leads in a Basstracker build, and things were grounded to the hull, creating a lot of problems troubleshooting what was what. It's just not a professional way of doing it, in my opinion, and there no reason for it if grounded to the battery properly.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats thanks for the response, I will follow your lead and not ground to the hull.
Nice bass!
Really great video but I have a question. If you didn’t remove the original jumpers on the switch panel (keeping the lower LED on the switch on) how do you run your accessory hot to the switch and then to the fuse box with only one available pin? Is there a butt connection somewhere? Thanks for doing these step by step videos!!
The BEST Boat Wiring Video Yet! I didn't see a parts listing for the flip-switches panel for all the lights. Please pass along link for panel
I made the panel itself custom. The swtches come on a smaller panel. Here is the link:
8 Gang Switch Panel- amzn.to/3hJoE9w
Thank you sir!
Do you have to run a jumper from the switch to the fuse box on all of the switches?
Each individual switch will have 3 pins used in back. 1- accesory coming in, positive. 2- positive jump from switch to fuse box 3- The negative jump (all negatives on switches jumped together and ran as one to negative on fuse box)
I like to throw some shrink wrap over the heat shrink butt connectors just because I've seen so many of those connectors crack and expose the metal.
It definitely can be done, I'm not opposed to it. I haven't had any issues but added protection can't hurt.
Great work thank you
Great video, I appreciate the content. The diagram you drew was definitely helpful.
If I have a on board charger where should I set it up at? Also will the kill switch support the on board charger?
On board charger just connects to the batteries then you plug it into a electrical plug. Doesn't have anything to do with boat wiring, fuses, or kill switches
My accessories stay on even when the switch is off what did i do wrong?
What did sea deck charge u for the decking
Custom sea dek routed jobs like this one charge based on square footage, how many layers of color, and depth of routed details. I don't get directly from sea dek as they do not do custom routered jobs, i get from their authorized dealer. Jobs vary but are typically 2-3 grand.
Can I use primary wire? It’s all I have
What turf do you have on the floor in the hatches? I’ve been looking for something to use.
Hydroturf
no relays to control the acc? Are they a bad idea?
I've only used relays on bigger accessories like a huge led light bar. I don't use in a typical jon boat set up but do as you wish.
@@AnthonyJonesBrigadeBoats Okay, i was just curious. I am adding lights to my truck and doing so, but i guess there is no real need on a small boat. Still got to run the wires, no sense in adding additional components to mess up. Thanks for the reply. it is a good and informative video. I am planning to build a cabin boat from an 18 foot starcraft and your video is certainly helping me plan the wiring. thanks for sharing it.
Which is better to use. The ring terminals or the fork terminals for the fuse block?
I like rings personally
One thing to consider would be a heat shrink label printer to tag all the wires.