Babylon
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Completing the final stages of installing the wiring for a Quick Aleph 700w windlass, and would appreciate a bit of help before I switch on the power and blow the whole thing up.
There are effectively two circuits working in tandem, both off the domestic 12v bank:
1. Heavy-duty cables direct from batteries (via a CB/isolator also in the battery compartment) running under the bunks etc forward to the windlass motor and adjacent contactor unit in the forepeak. No real issues here, terminals all properly crimped and sealed with insulation tape - but should I vaseline the terminal-stud connections before nipping up the nuts? This is all on the 'dry' side, as the chain falls into its own locker the other side of a removable bulkhead panel.
2. Multicore cable running under the headlining powered via the domestic positive and negative busbars near the chart-table (thus switched on by the main domestic isolator and with an inline 5A blade fuse on the positive side -wiring diagram says 4A?!). This runs to the contactor unit in the forepeak via two controllers: (i) a fixed up/down switch just inside the companionway, and (ii) a remote waterproof controller/chain-counter on a flexible lead which plugs in via a gland at the base of the mast (so I can happily traipse between the cockpit and foredeck when getting in an anchoring pickle).
Does this all sound right? I got a bit confused at first by the wiring diagram, but once I 'repositioned' the picture of the single battery beside the windlass/contactor in the attached diagram as two independent wiring circuits off the battery bank situated a good distance away, it seemed to make sense.
Finally, do little spade- and bullet-connectors need insulating and greasing with vaseline if they're all in the relative dry of the interior?
There are effectively two circuits working in tandem, both off the domestic 12v bank:
1. Heavy-duty cables direct from batteries (via a CB/isolator also in the battery compartment) running under the bunks etc forward to the windlass motor and adjacent contactor unit in the forepeak. No real issues here, terminals all properly crimped and sealed with insulation tape - but should I vaseline the terminal-stud connections before nipping up the nuts? This is all on the 'dry' side, as the chain falls into its own locker the other side of a removable bulkhead panel.
2. Multicore cable running under the headlining powered via the domestic positive and negative busbars near the chart-table (thus switched on by the main domestic isolator and with an inline 5A blade fuse on the positive side -wiring diagram says 4A?!). This runs to the contactor unit in the forepeak via two controllers: (i) a fixed up/down switch just inside the companionway, and (ii) a remote waterproof controller/chain-counter on a flexible lead which plugs in via a gland at the base of the mast (so I can happily traipse between the cockpit and foredeck when getting in an anchoring pickle).
Does this all sound right? I got a bit confused at first by the wiring diagram, but once I 'repositioned' the picture of the single battery beside the windlass/contactor in the attached diagram as two independent wiring circuits off the battery bank situated a good distance away, it seemed to make sense.
Finally, do little spade- and bullet-connectors need insulating and greasing with vaseline if they're all in the relative dry of the interior?
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