Narrator: Welcome back! The light is still on in the tool shed,
which means there's still work to do.
What do we have John?
John: Welcome back. We've been trying to teach
you a little bit more about battery switches.
(inaudible)
And what we want to do now is we
want to wire in a selector switch.
And hypothetically think of a
single engine with two batteries.
We've got a starting battery and
we've got an accessory battery.
Which is called a Group 27. It's more of a deep cycle
battery to run 12 volt accessories.
And that leads us to our next guest today
on the program. Who we have the privilege
of having with us is a gentleman
by the name of J.P. Massana.
And J.P. is the OEM
Sales Manager for Perko.
And I want to talk about this model number 8501.
J.P.: Battery Selector Switch.
John: Probably one of the most common
battery selector switches in the entire
marine industry. And we want to show
everybody how to wire this thing in. Okay?
Take a look on the back here.
Alright, do you see these three posts?
Now they are also stamped underneath.
This one here it says "Common".
This over here says "1".
This over here says number "2".
Alright, we need to know that because
what we want to do is we want to wire
up our batteries. J.P. where do we begin?
J.P.: Taking a positive lead from battery number one.
John: Going on the positive post right there on the battery.
J.P.: To go to lead number one post
on the battery selector switch.
John: Okay now this is a starting battery and most
people consider the starting
battery as battery number one.
J.P.: Number one.
John: Okay, well that's very simple what do we do on the other end?
J.P.: We're gonna go, take the
positive lead, go to position number two.
Pole number two on the back of the battery selector switch.
John: Okay, so this is battery two,
goes to number two, on a selector switch.
That's pretty easy so far.
J.P: That's pretty easy.
John: Let's talk about the engine, you're gonna have
a battery lead, or a couple of
these coming off of the engine. Okay.
Red is positive.
We're gonna take that to the center post.
Do you see where it says "Common" again?
We're gonna take it right there.
What do we do with the black lead?
J.P.: You're gonna need to go to common ground.
John: Which is right here. This represents
our common ground. We're not done yet!
We have to hook up some
ground cables. And why don't you
hook up the negative terminal,
on battery one, we'll take that to common ground.
Okay, I've got a second lead here.
I'm gonna take it from the negative
terminal on battery two. We're gonna take it
to common ground. And we're almost done!
We've got one more lead left.
It's a positive lead and basically
all we're gonna do is again look at that
common post on the back.
Don't get confused, use common post.
On the back of the selector switch,
you put it right over top.
This now goes to the...
J.P.: ...distribution panel.
John: Fantastic. J.P. thank you.
J.P.: You're welcome.
John: Hey we got a couple of other people that we
need to thank from Perko. Wolf Hennig and the rest
of the staff out there. We also had
Charlie Mann on the program
from West Marine. That was a great operational technique.
And we had Bill Gribble
on the program. Bill is with PlasTeak.
But you know what the most important ones that
we need to thank here. That's right, it's been you!
Hey thanks so much for hanging out with us for
the last half hour but we've got to go.
But how about this. How about until we
see each other again.
And you do yourself a favor,
and get out there and make you boat "ship shape"!
Of course you can! I'm John Greviskis,
we'll see you next time!
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