Wiring New Downriggers

[TileMan Dan]

Agree totally with Jeremy. You can get them at West Marine for like 40 bucks. If you have to do the bus bar you might as well go with the fuse block Much better than an inline fuse link Less wire connections to go bad

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[BP Swing]

Big Jon calls for a buss bar but makes no mention of fuses as there is a built in circuit breaker on the sportsman model, I got the blue water 2701 buss bar (100 amp and up to 48 volt) on ebay for 10 bucks.  2 rows of 5 screws each. Hope that will work. Thanks guys.

[RSF]

Whatever you do, keep this in mind. Each Downrigger must be hooked into it's required fuse rating. If you are going to run one main line to the battery after connecting each fused downrigger power-line to each other (NOT IN SERIES), you must run double the wire gauge eg Each rigger is 12 gauge-original, run your single line at a maximum 6 gauge or less. Secondly attach an inline fuse seven inches from the battery connection, the fuse rating should be 2/3rds the rating of each rigger fuse X 2.