[Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery

[Roger Pihlaja]

Lou,

Assuming your Rhodes 22 has an electrical system something like Dynamic
Equilibrium, my 1976 model, the 12 VDC fuse or circuit breaker panel is
located on the aft bulkhead of the main cabin just below & to starboard of
the companionway hatch.  If you open up that electrical panel, you should
see a bronze buss bar that the (-) terminals from all the 12 VDC circuits
are tied into & which is, in turn, connected to the (-) terminal of the
battery via a HD cable.   I would install the Dynaplate on the outside of
the hull roughly below this point.  If you locate the Dynaplate as far
inboard as possible towards the shoal draft keel; then, there won't be any
interference with your trailer.  The Dynaplate is made of sintered powdered
bronze, which makes it porous & gives the device a tremendous effective
surface area when in contact with water.  The Dynaplate will come with a
couple of special gold plated thru-bolts.  Run a HD ground cable from your
boat's (-) buss bar down to one of the gold plated thru bolts on the
Dynaplate.  By the way, you won't believe how much better your VHF and FM
radios will perform after you provide them with a good ground.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Rosenberg" <lsr3 at MAIL.nyu.edu>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery


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>   Roger,
>   Thanks again, but to be totally honest where to I install this ground
plate??
>   and will I have to lift it off my trailer to to this?
>   thanks
> L
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> >Lou,
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> >Look in the West Marine 2004 Master Catalog on pp. 74.  In the upper left
> >corner of the page, look at a product called the Guest Dynaplate Sintered
> >Bronze Ground Plate.  The appropriate size for a Rhodes 22 is the 6" X 2"
X
> >1/2" Guest M/N: 4006.
> >
> >Roger Pihlaja
> >S/V Dynamic Equilibrium
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Lou Rosenberg" <lsr3 at MAIL.nyu.edu>
> >To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:53 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery
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> >>    Rhodies,
> >>      Although I have been consulting Don Casey's book on Electrical
> >>  wiring I still dont see a good spot for ground wire of system on my
> >>  Rhodes.  Can anyone advise please?
> >>    The bolts on my CB cap are not grounded.
> >>    any advice appreciated
> >>    Lou
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