Stunning Wiring Navigation Lights

Wiring schematics for boats can be very confusing and they may not follow conventional wiring rules.

Wiring navigation lights. If one light goes out the rest continue to burn. In this video i install a set of navigation lights on a boat. For the purposes of this guide both your red and green lights will be considered nav lights and the white stern or hardtop light will be.

It also allows you to avoid tying into the boat s common ground reducing the possibility of your boat s navigation lights going dark unexpectedly. You ll only need one switch to turn your navigation lights on. Wiring your boat s navigation lights doesn t need to be a wiring nightmare.

Contura ii nav anc switch. Marine safety duplex cable combines the hot power wire and the ground wire in a single cable allowing you to make the run from battery to all the running lights without a cumbersome return loop of wire to the battery. Step 5 connecting the control panel.

Regardless of the configuration of your boat s navigation lights wiring the individual lights follows a set pattern that requires you to have a fuse in the wire between the switch and the light. With some creative wiring and a multi terminal bus bar you can avoid most of the soldering and some of the wiring. We start by going through some of the theory behind the angle navigation lights should shine an.

Read through the owners manual of your boat so that you can find out how to wire up the navigational lights safely.