Wiring Boat - Best place to get diagrams?

[chipmonger]

Starting to rewire my boat and try to bring sanity to the mess within. Looking to diagram the wiring, what software/where can I get vector diagrams of equipment/electronic parts such as the part/panels seen in

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Thanks,

Ken

[Russ]

How about Open Office Draw
https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html

[chipmonger]

Thank Russ for the reply. I already had LibreOffice installed so I'm using it's Draw program.

[mallardjusted]

I've used Excel for decades, so I just used it for interconnecting and text. i copied and pasted other parts/symbols from general web image searches or the manufacturer.

Then you can pdf it or make a jpg out of it.

[OverEasy]

Old school….mechanical pencil and graph paper…always worked for me
Even works with pens and wooden carve-yer-own pencils.
No software, device or power required.
Works by daylight, moonlight, flashlight or candlelight.
Stays readily active and available in a notebook that two or ten generations from now can see, understand and use just by looking at them.

(The archeologists of the future will look back at the 1980 to present time period an conclude that all intelligent life faded away to idiocy as people increasingly worshipped glass faced bricks! )

Future generations aren’t gonna be opening dust cover chests in the attic discovering photo albums, diaries, journals and notebooks to understand or appreciate the generations that preceded them for the most part. All that personal relevant creativity, stories, pictures, movies, thoughts, feelings, love letters, designs, calculations, ideas, drawings, manuals, instructions, catalogs, & correspondences that are/were on Floppy discs, CDs, VHS, Beta, thumb drives, Zip drives, iClouds , cel, phones, tablets, iPads, laptops and desktops will in the next ten or twenty years be for the most part irretrievably lost to the winds of technological obsolescence…..if it hasn’t already… it will be as if none of it or the people ever existed …

The future will know more about what the Ancient Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, Mayan, Roman & Greek people thought, felt, accomplished, created and dreamed of than civilization since the 1980s…
Hmmm… Maybe that’s just as well seeing as how poorly things have gone since 2016…

Ya gotta laugh or yer gonna cry

Best Regards
Over Easy

[chipmonger]

Thanks, grabbing images online, pasting them into LibreDraw, and adding connectors will need to do.

[Russ]

You did THAT with Excel?

Well done. Looks amazing.

[mallardjusted]

Thanks. I've used Excel so many years that (for me) is easy to use.

[Highlander]

with about 12 miles of wiring going thru my boat I,d need about a 300 page manual . It,s all locked up nice an safe in my head

J

[Russ]

Thanks. I've used Excel so many years that (for me) is easy to use.

I LOVE that diagram. So well organized.

Do you have a "blank" version that others could use? We could add it to the resources page.

[Idiotfool]

How is everyone's wiring on a 26M ran from the battery to the switch panel? Mine has a solar retrofit and the wiring goes up in the pizza oven birth up to the pedestal, then back to the panel in an unknown way. I'm curious if stock wiring was run the same way.

[Russ]

How is everyone's wiring on a 26M ran from the battery to the switch panel? Mine has a solar retrofit and the wiring goes up in the pizza oven birth up to the pedestal, then back to the panel in an unknown way. I'm curious if stock wiring was run the same way.

That's kind of how I did it. Ran it back under the aft berth and then up through the headliner to the panel next to the companionway.

My new solar controller is more or less wired direct to the house battery with an inline fuse.