Switch panel setup ?

[Dockhead]

. . . I think I would still like to have the two voltmeters showing each bank ... they would both disconnect with isolator switches opened.

Its one of those sit the desk - units in front of you .... sheet of black acrylic ready to cut / fit as wanted

I did want to have a 'sailboat' on the panel with led's showing which lights on ... who knows - maybe I will !

One of the best things I did to my instrument panels over 16 years of slow evolution, was to fit Chinese (Amazon-sourced) Volt/Amp meters for each battery bank and for AC power in and out.

I find it very handy indeed to be able to see at a glance what kind of loads are on.

You can get most of this information from a battery monitor (or Cerbo GX) but you have to press a button, select source, etc. etc. Current loads and volts continuously displayed is much, much nicer, in my experience.

What concerns the "sailboat" outline on the panel -- my boat was originally built with this, but it doesn't work with LED nav lights!! The draw of LED nav lights is too small for that to work. Maybe there's some way to swap out a diode or something

 

[Refueler]

One of the best things I did to my instrument panels over 16 years of slow evolution, was to fit Chinese (Amazon-sourced) Volt/Amp meters for each battery bank and for AC power in and out.

I find it very handy indeed to be able to see at a glance what kind of loads are on.

You can get most of this information from a battery monitor (or Cerbo GX) but you have to press a button, select source, etc. etc. Current loads and volts continuously displayed is much, much nicer, in my experience.

What concerns the "sailboat" outline on the panel -- my boat was originally built with this, but it doesn't work with LED nav lights!! The draw of LED nav lights is too small for that to work. Maybe there's some way to swap out a diode or something

Thank you .. that follows my thinking as well ... to be able to glance at the panel to see situation ....

I have enough stuff that I need to press buttons / scroll through menus etc ... its nice sometimes to just go 'old school' ....