A nice, readable little book on boat electrics is: Sailboat Electrics Simplified, by Don Casey. He does a good job explaining the topic for us laymen, including the reasoning behind where to put fuses and how to size them. Tod Mills (electrically challenged) M17 #408 BuscaBrisas T26 #30 Pretentious (project boat) -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces+htmills=bright.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces+htmills=bright.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Steve Shenkel Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:52 AM To: 'For and about Montgomery Sailboats' Subject: RE: M_Boats: Early M17 Electrical Panel Hey Bones, Thanks for the information. Do you recall if the thermal overcurrent disconnects are per individual circuits or for the main power and therefore, shuts everything down? Also, how long does it take to cool down to reset? At first thought, it would seem more convenient to rework it to fuse or provide a circuit breaker for all discrete circuits. Steve Shenkel M 17 AZ -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces+slsail=cox.net@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces+slsail=cox.net@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of bownez@juno.com Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 7:01 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Early M17 Electrical Panel Hi Steve, The red item on my 1976 M17 electrical panel is a small pilot lamp. I fuse the main battery positive connection. I seem to recall there is a auto reset thermal overcurrent disconnect glued to the back of the panel. These will trip on an overload and then reset after cooling. Bones _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats