Today I picked up a battery and a Cabela's Pro 20 amp 2 bank charger. I was a little nervous about hooking power to the system since a previous owner had done some questionable wiring and I didn't know when the last time it had been powered up was. I hesitantly hooked up the battery expecting sparks to fly when I hooked up the negative battery cable, but there wasn't a single spark. This actually made me nervous because I thought there would be some sort of drain some where. I climbed out of the utility cave, went into the cabin and saw a reassuring green light on the electrical control panel next to the 12v master switch. I turned on the cabin lights and they came on, I turned on the nav lights and the bow lights worked, the stern light didn't. I switched the bilge pump on and it came on. I'm pretty excited right now. I'm not done, it was just a trial run since I need a second battery, I need to secure the batteries and charger, wire the charger into the 120v shorepower system, and test the 120v side. Overall tonight is going down as a success!
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