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Ahh yes, count yourself lucky I bought mine before you got to it….its been tough. The battery selector is for feeding everything on the panel. The engine starts off the port side house bank. I have a dumb “battery crossover” push button that I can use to start off the stbd bank. I plan on...

I gotta say, I don’t recommend what I did either, but I did it for $32 and some left over Formica. My panel is like 26”x11”.

How much did you pay for this?

Unfortunately I chose not to figure a way to make them back lit, but Blue Sea has packs of them. I think I ended up with 100 labels for AC/DC that I will make do with. I’m way too picky about mismatching panels like my old panel had. It’ll look good. I added a motorcycle license plate light with...

Very carefully…. I worked in millimeters with a metal scale always starting at the 10mm line. Made my marks on the poly carbonate. Every whole was drilled with 1/16” bit. Then contact cemented Formica on top. Flipped the panel and drilled all the 1/16” holes again through the Formica. Then used...

Figured I’d post my breaker panel built. This was a tough project and I didn’t get any ideas on other peoples builds because it’s not a very common thing to do and now I know why… I spent countless hours researching, finding the right components, making sure everything fits blah blah blah. Most...

I think it’s .18”

Might I add… it’s being glued to my polycarbonate panel. Not sure that matters on the jb weld vs thickened epoxy

I can always count on you RT. Fair winds.

Not sure this is of any weight- but in my new electrical panel build, I needed a way to fasten my neutral bus bars to the back of the panel. Because of the less than slightly look of fasteners on the face of the panel, I was looking at Weld Mounts to secure these bus bars. To get started, their...

I would like l to hear your thoughts about your comment on me “killing someone” with my current wiring set up. That was a pretty bold statement to say and then not address on a public message Also, if I get a short in the unit, the casing is insulated and plastic, and with the primary side or...

Trawlerman - can you please point out on my schematic how I have the transformers in parallel?? I fail to see what you’ve identified

I’ll give it a read. And yes. All AC power sources will have individual neutrals. Except when the Gen is online. It will share shore 1 and shore 2 neutral busses

That’s how mine is set up now. However I already have a sub panel that currently is not in use. I like the identification of knowing what is/isnt inverter loads for future owners. And it’s impossible to back feed the inverter too (well, almost impossible)

Not everything on shore 1 will be inverter loads. Shore 1 will cover: -water heater -12v battery charger -24v battery charger Inverter will piggy back to a sub panel which will feed: -Outlets -galley outlets -refrigerator Shore 2 will cover: -mid cabin air conditioner -aft cabin air...

Thinking about coming from Shore 1 main breaker. It’ll go from there, to the inverter, then to a sub panel, with circuit protection. Here’s a snip from the inverter manual:

See new sketch. It’s simplified but I think we all get the point. Forgot to draw the Gen ground

Twisted Tree - in my scenario with isolation transformers, if my dock power has shore RCDs, wouldnt an RCD before my transformer basically be useless? In the interest of money I’m thinking about a standard double pole breaker before the iso, and an RCD after to supply the panel

Perfect! makes sense. i can make this work. ill send an update to my electrical schematic to see what you guys think for some final comments

Heres the link to the company i bought my isolation transformers from https://www.bridgeportmagnetics.com/bmg-product/marine-puck-isolation-transformer-6000va/

So because i cant disconnect the bond at the inverter when its running, that leaves me with option 1: creating separate neutral buses for Shore 1, Shore 2, and the inverter. Which brings me back to my original wiring schematic with the update to adding in breakers before the isolation...

I’ve got a dinosaur Xantrex Freedom Marine 25 2500 Watts 130 Amp Charger Model: 81-2511-12(202) SN: 281071 Date: 1999

In regards to option 2, I would need a double pole breaker on the inverter sub panel to prevent current feeding back to it if using the other power sources since all neutrals would be tied together, correct? Side note. In reading E-11, it speaks on grounding on the metal case of the iso...

In reading this article, because my isolation transformer is installed within 10’ of wire. It looks like I can just use a convention circuit breaker. But I will confirm with ABYC standards. However, the article does not address if or when I connect my neutral to ground. I peruse the ABUC E-11...

Thank you sir!!