There we have an afternoons work, it might not look that tidy, but it's tidier and a lot more secure than it was.
The wiring on Pixie makes some strange twists and turns, house batteries connected to the engine, so when the engine is started the voltage drops and the chartplotter goes off, different wires doing the same job, isolated cables have voltage when the shouldn't. Every day I look at the wiring is another day of stepping into the unknown.
Rather than try to work out what someone else was thinking at the time, the best solution seems to be to replace, rewire, and reroute any cables.
Yesterday I discovered that all of our domestic power was coming from a lead from the starter motor, this explains the black out of the chart plotter when we need it after coming into a strange harbour under engine. So that's been sorted and the lead from house battery switch, no longer goes to the starter motor!
Because we've added more electrics, I've increase the wire gauge supplying the switch panel, just to be on the safe side and to take into account any future modifications.
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