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Old 05-23-2018, 12:46 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by MichaelB1969 View Post
Now that is a "cup is half full" outlook.


Yeah, but I didn’t even cite all the reasons I’m glad. The old cabling was corroding, some of the terminations were bare and there was a lot of welding cable lying in the bilge carrying heavy current . . . some of the sheathing was deteriorating from exposure to fuel. It’s all gone and the new cabling has proper heat-shrink terminations and is as close to ABYC as I could make it. Plus, I got to know the boat’s electrical system to a level of detail I could never have understood before. Plus, I’ve limited the potential for galvanic corrosion, shocking swimmers and reversed polarity by replacing the entire bonding system and using an isolating transformer.

But if all that’s not enough to rationalize the time and money, I can now make a pot of coffee without cranking up the genny.
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