How are marine electrical wiring for boats and ships differ from that for land based buildings?
ABYC standard is tinned stranded copper conductor, with crimped, or crimped and soldered (but not solely soldered), connections (no wire nuts, ever). It's a higher standard than for land-based wiring because of the corrosive environment and the shock and vibration that comes with operating a boat. At the point of connection, a soldered joint is equivalent to a solid conductor joined to a stranded conductor, and it will be weakened by vibration. there are other differences but that's all I feel like typing right now.
the positive and negative colors are diferant plus there are differant colors for differant things like the bilge.horn,lights,tach and so on plus a good marine wire is tin coated for use in salt water
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