Is anyone other than me an automotive wiring nerd?

[Robertmangrum.rm]

For anyone who wants to wire stuff in a vehicle, the Blue Sea products he uses are very good in vehicles and other places subject condensation. I use a few of their products for portable ham radio. I haven't had any issues with voltage drop. Their products are a little bit expensive, but not too bad.

https://www.bluesea.com/products/category/16/Fuse_Blocks#

I use tons of BlueSea products. My main panels are custom 360 panels from them. I will say since their merger with ParksRV and others. Their electronic meters have suffered in reliability. As far as there solenoids and relays and such I've still had no issues. When they dropped the VSM 422 and replaced it with the M1 multimeter. They have been nothing but trouble. The old 9000 series meters are still pretty much bulletproof. Their systems integrate nicely with the CZone RV1 lighting controller I use as well.

 

[JoshT]

Definitely not me. I mean I want to do a good job and make it nice. I try to buy the tools and connectors to do it nice. When it come down to actually doing something, I'm just trying to get it to work quick and move on. Intending to come back later once I know it's right and make it permanent.

To quote Jared Pink*: "nothing is more permanent than temporary wiring that works."

* Host of The Questionable Garage on YouTube. Worth checking out IMO.

 

[holyford86]

We figured it up back several years ago and it was almost 5 miles of wire we put into every bus. With HDMI cables now and new advances in electronics those numbers are probably down to like 3 miles these days. It takes almost 3 days to get all the rough in wiring in place before they can start installing headliners. I use all Marine grade tinned copper wire to avoid corrosion. It's more expensive but when you build a product that costs close to 1million dollars when completed. You don't cheap out on wire haha.

Its best to not mess around with cheap wire anywhere. Tinned, fine strand copper is nice stuff. I've been noticing a lot more copper coated aluminum wire in products lately (take a hard look at badlands winches) and I am not a huge fan.

For anyone who wants to wire stuff in a vehicle, the Blue Sea products he uses are very good in vehicles and other places subject condensation. I use a few of their products for portable ham radio. I haven't had any issues with voltage drop. Their products are a little bit expensive, but not too bad.

https://www.bluesea.com/products/category/16/Fuse_Blocks#

I've used some of their stuff, its nice quality stuff

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Yeah, you could probably tag me as an electrical nerd…

I took all of the electrical courses I could through my high school. I haven’t stopped learning electrical since. I do my own vehicle electrical but I don’t do much vehicle electrical for anyone else. However, I do often advertise locally to do boat and trailer wiring. I’ve found that a lot of people with boats are willing to pay the cost of hiring someone to do electrical and the majority of the boats around here are pretty simple for wiring so they really aren’t bad to do at all. Most of the time the problem is either old wiring with poor connections or someone else’s hack job that failed.

I currently have a Packout stack that’s as tall as me with everything but loom in it for doing electrical.

Super 33 is what I use for most of my electrical tape needs.