Newbie jon boat schematic

[Fish042099]

I am new to wiring and electrical in boats, before I acquired this boat all i had was a Rigid Inflatable with no need lighting. Now, I have a 12' jon boat and would like to go fishing after dusk. I would need bow and stern nav lights as well as maybe some interior courtesy lights to see inside the boat more easy. I will be building a small center console in the boat where the battery and fuse panel will go. I spent the good part of today trying to figure out how these work, and i still haven't come up with much. I took a shot at a drawing schematic of the boat wiring, I know it is wrong but I would like to be educated on how to make it correct. Sorry for the sloppy drawing.

 

[NYBo]

Nothing wrong with your drawing, as far as it goes. I would direct you to some old threads with great diagrams, especially one on wiring nav lights, but the drawings have been removed.

 

[NYBo]

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Okay, I found a pretty good nav light wiring diagram:

 

[sam am I]

http://forums.iboats.com/filedata/fetch?id=7108520&d=1397575204

 

[Fish042099]

Okay, I found a pretty good nav light wiring diagram:

Thats very helpful, looks along the same lines as mine, which is good. I just don't want to invest all the money and time installing it and then find out that I did it wrong.

 

[Fish042099]

http://forums.iboats.com/filedata/fetch?id=7108520&d=1397575204

Interesting. Not to sound like a newb but all those numbers are just switches, correct?

 

[sam am I]

Interesting. Not to sound like a newb but all those numbers are just switches, correct?

Np, they are actually the typical terminal(7 term illuminated DPDT ON-OFF-ON) assignment numbers. I think it is sort of a standard.

 

[Fish042099]

Np, they are actually the typical terminal(7 term illuminated DPDT ON-OFF-ON) assignment numbers. I think it is sort of a standard.

That's good, thanks for all the help with this thread, think I got it all down haha.