Pontoon Wiring

[bullhead master]

I'm refurbing a pontoon and I need to rewire everything. I want to add a generator for bow fishing at night and to run a couple 12v accessories. What would I need for the generator connection and do you have to ground the 12v and 110v if so how do you accomplish that.

[Eelpout08]

I would run all the 12 volt off of a battery, hook an onboard charger to the battery and connect the charger to a shoreline receptacle, and if you have any 110v accessories you can connect them off of the shoreline recept..

Then you can plug your generator into that to power everything.

Wiring it that way would also make it a snap to charge the battery at home, just plug it in.

As far as the ground/negative wires, hook all the 12v neg. to the neg. battery terminal and all the 110v neg. to the neg. shoreline terminal.

Do not use the boat for a ground conductor like on a trailer or vehicle.

Hope that helps

[bullhead master]

I was thinking an Iota utility converter to charge battery and run 12v would that be ok to use? Also how would you ground the DC and AC to make it safe so it doesn't fail. Would I have to install a breaker or fuse panel if the generator already has one on it? Thanks