Not a bad idea. But don't you think that the boatbuilders had an idea behind that, when they installed it?
Ed Sherman from Cruising World wrote the following about the subject:
Switched DC negative is typically a European electrical feature that you rarely if ever see on American built boats...
I saw that my last sentence may have lead to confusion. I wanted to write that I wanted to ground both bars, the batteries and the loads. Sorry!
I am just trying to ground my negative bus bar. And the two bars are disconnected when the main switch is off. So when I ground the first bar, the...
Hello.
I have 4 big bus bars. 2 positive and 2 negative.
Between the first ± and the second ± bars sits the main power switch.
The fist ± contains connections from Batteries, Chargers and what else needs constant power
also when the main switch is off.
To the second bars ± all loads are...
