Fish House Wiring Help

[sticknstring]

This is what I have to wire up to one 12v deep cycle battery: 2 interior lights, 3 exterior lights, a stereo in the corner, a cig receptacle for charging, & a small computer fan. I've got 2 switches and 3 fuses & 200' of 16ga wire. I figure I'll need a fuse on the cig socket and another for the stereo. The lights are probably okay without? Anyone want to take a shot at filling in the diagram? I'd like to wire everything together so I can set the battery on the floor, hook up the two posts and be done. Help!

This is what I've done so far but I'd like to get 2nd opinions before I finish insulating.

[rich24]

run one:

battery to the stereo to outside light.

run two:

battery to cig socket to one interior light to one outside light.

run three:

battery to second interior light to fan to last outside light.

fuse each line coming off of the battery.

That way if something happens somewhere along any of the run, you won't lose all your interior lights or exterior lights and you will have some light to help find the problem.

[sticknstring]

That's good logic. My plan is to get a Humphrey gas light in there for backup as well. I'll see what I can figure out. Thanks.

[Eelpout08]

run a positive cable from the battery to a fuse block, and a neg. cable to a common connection point. those cables should be heavier-10ga? then run your separate circuits from each fuse on the positive side and connect to the common neg. make sure you leave room to add later (something always gets added) and make sure you write down or draw a diagramm of which fuse is for what circuit if you aren't going to have all the same thing (ex. all outside lights) on one fuse

[Tom7227]

My cousin did this up at his deer camp and it worked out well. He used standard swtiches and light sockets and bought 12 Vdc screw in bulbs at an auto parts store. He had some sort of resetable fuse for each of the lines. I had one of those on my old trolling motor so I know they'are available. A car radio from a junk yard and a couple of speakers were enough for us.

I wonder if you could use some sort of automotive lamps that are LED for the lighting cause they'd take a whole lot less juice. It may be overkill as well but if you dropped maybe a hun on a solar charger you'd never have to haul the battery unless you were out there for a really long time.

[sticknstring]

Yeah I should've gone LED but they just weren't within my budget this year. I'll make another run to the store and gather some more wiring supplies and have at it. Thanks for all the suggestions.