Electrical Wire & Cable Specialists

  When talking about battery management systems of any kind, battery cables are among the most important components. It does not matter if we´re talking about automotive or marine battery cables , they must ensure you always have stable power and prevent battery drain. This not only means that they have to be properly secured and protected. Size and gauge play a vital role when choosing the right battery cable for your system. Here are three things you must always bear in mind when selecting and installing your battery cables. Proper Gauge Understanding cable gauges can be a problem for many as gauge measurements can be very counterintuitive. During the early days of the cable industry, cables were made out from a strand of iron that needed to be thinned out by passing them through increasingly narrower drawing dice until they were the right diameter. A 0 gauge cable meant that it didn't need to be reduced or gauged, while a 30 gauge cable went through 30 drawing dice until it ...

Owning a boat requires a lot of work if you want to keep it in top shape for the next outing. Washing and waxing the fiberglass hull, cleaning up the bilge so you can spot leaking fluids, lubricating where needed, flushing your engine… However, one of the most important things to be concerned about is making sure your electrical system works properly. You really don't want to have a power outage when you're away from the shore. Your electrical system not only keeps the lights on in your boat but also pumps life into your engines and powers vital instruments like your navigation and comms equipment. These systems are relatively easy to maintain on land. However, the marine environment puts tremendous amounts of pressure on your electrical systems in the form of humidity, corrosion, constant vibration, and exceptionally common instances of “Murphy's Law” at play. Being aware that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, boat owners are forced to be proactive and ma...