I wired up the solar panel and alternator on Sea Puppy today. The solar panel is wired into the batteries before the 1/2/all/off switch so that it will still trickle charge the batteries even if the the power is shut off on the boat. The alternator I wired in on the other side of the switch so that it will run the system even if the switch is off.. ( I need to read up on this to make shure this is the correct way to do it. Not sure if the battery has a stabilizing affect on it vs running stuff from it without the battery in the link.) The rectifier on my engine was wired backwards from the factory and was putting out excessively high voltage. It took putting a volt meter on it and playing with it to get it right when I wired it all up. luckily my gps unit actually started warning me about an over voltage condition and I was able to shut everything off quickly and start troubleshooting it, also my next door neighbor at the dock took an interest as this was going on and helped troubleshoot it. Took about 5 minutes to figure out and fix with his help.
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