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Old 10-15-2013, 10:50 PM   #47
Brent Hodges
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Am i just not seeing this correctly? For those of you that say hire someone i had already planned to but wanted to run wires, CBs etc prior to i cant afford to have someone at $95 per hour to run wires. But i will gladly pay for connection and inspection. (endsnip)

I have customers run their own wiring all the time, and that's fine with me. Pulling cable through a boat is my least favorite part of the job. I'll suggest this: Gather your inverter, controller, whatever you have and call the professional for a planning meeting. Pay him an hour or so to layout your system and tell you where to pull what wires, where to mount what breakers, etc. Then you can do all the ground work that you're able to. He can come back, make all the connections, and test the system.
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