electrical fuse board

Danishgod

I just purchased a new 2014 Rinker 236.  I am a reasonably well educated boater but was somewhat surprized by the lack of a fuse panel.  The mechanic explained that all fuses were in-line and not centralised into one fuse panel.  Very surprized!  the question now is how do I hook up additional after market parts to the electrical system easily?  Is there a solution to this issue?

Michael T

There are probably auxillary switches on your dash that you can use. If not you can add terminals to your second battery and run fused lines from that.

Danishgod

I am still puzzled about why Rinker would approach electrical management this way.  Very old school....

MarkB

The only inline fuses I know of on my 2011 Rinker 260EC are the ones directly on the engine, or for circuits that I have added (and they are located close to the battery).

As Al states, my boat has almost all of my 12V breakers under the dash (right under the steering wheel). They are little push pin type breakers.  I have a few other breakers right next to my battery switch, these are for circuits that are always hot like the bilge pump and the mercathode system. I don't have any fuses for circuits Rinker installed (except on engine, but that's mercruiser's doing).

Given you're boat is a 2014, I'm fairly certain your's is wired the same.