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Old 03-02-2019, 08:15 PM   #9
wkearney99
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Let me also suggest that you plan for a total re-fit of all kinds of sensors.

Not that you have to do it all right away. Rather if you have a 'big picture' plan laid out you can avoid creating dead-ends that make later growth problematic.

That and if you have to pull something apart, think hard about at least pulling whatever other sensor or support wires would be useful in the future, if just to avoid having to pull all that same stuff apart again.

I had to re-route a fair bit of the N2K network on my boat due to a previous owner/contractor doing only 'just enough' to get stuff connected. Along the way discovering incredibly lame stuff like the whole bus being powered off TINY little wires left over from some other long-gone equipment. Instead of just using the 12v bus that WAS RIGHT NEXT TO IT.

Look at a schematic? Why would ANYONE ever bother to do that!? smdh sometimes...
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