Moved Batteries today!

[steined]

I finally got around to moving the batteries today.

It was not as easy as I had anticipated. Not sure why, but it ended up taking 3 beers. (about 2 hours)

I used this as a guide: http://yamahajetboaters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34877&start=0

I gained a great amount of space and it is totally worth it. If I had all the tools in the boat from the beginning it would have probably been a 1-1.5 hour job (2 beers?).

Anyhow, thought I'd share.

 

[Geiger41]

I think the real concern here is that you only drank 3 beers in 2 hours !!!

 

[itsdgm]

Any pics? Would love to see what you've done.

 

[ToddW850]

X2 on the pics. Would love to see.

 

[octavio3311]

I think the real concern here is that you only drank 3 beers in 2 hours !!!

3 hrs. That sound like a 6-pack job

 

[BoaterGuy]

I just did mine too. I had to stop halfway and go buy a drill. I always forget something!

It was not fun crawling into the storage space to screw down the battery trays. Luckily I only had to splice the ground wire for the dual charging relay. Everything else was long enough. Put the start batt in the back and house in the front.

 

[steined]

Hey it's not the qty, its the quality! These were high ABV IPAs (Mad Tree PyscHOPathy) so they are easily equivalent to 6 Bud Lights! I'll get pictures when I start on the sound deadening project today.

 

[dtcjr115]

So right!

 

[steined]

Here is the video discussing a couple points about the DVSR and the 2103 CARB boats. It also shows where the batteries ended up.

In the end:
1 - 49" #4 battery cable from Oreillys
1 roll of 18ga stranded copper wire I already had
1 package of 18ga 3/8" loop end: Couldn't find so had to use 16ga
1 package of 18ga heat shrink butt connectors: From Oreillys - I used heat shrink butt connectors.
2 48" lengths of wire-wrap (One red one black)- I used a red one for the new extended cable. You also need to cover some of the smaller house wires with its own loom and I used the new black loom for that. - From Oreillys

 

[tdonoughue]

Can someone explain the purpose of the wire wrap?

 

[davel501]

Makes things look nice and extra protection to keep the insulation from getting nicked.

 

[steined]

Can someone explain the purpose of the wire wrap?

In this case it also color codes the black positive cable correctly! Helps reduce hookup errors!

 

[tdonoughue]

Ok. Those both make sense. When I did my amp, I put the wire wrap in the engine compartment but didn't worry as much about it elsewhere. I was wanting to provide extra heat protection, mainly... Just didn't want to miss something.

 

[troybox]

I just moved mine as well, definitely adds a lot of space...little tricky to hold the screw and the drill with the one hand I could get in the cubby. I would highly recommend a magnetic bit!