You will need a couple of tools before you can start connecting it so make sure that youve got your toolkit with you.

Boat fish finder wiring. An ordinary auto battery would do for starting and lights but for running a radio and other electronics something with a little more of a deep cycle capacity will be needed so the battery doesnt go flat while youre fishing and listening to the radio and leave you stranded when you try to. INSTALL THE BINNACLE MOUNT. There is a red wire for power a black wire for ground and then a purple with white stripe that must run to the rocker switch.

You should use 6 gauge wire with proper connectors from your cranking battery to a stainless steel buse as close to finders as possible and avoiding as much other wiring as possible. What you NEED and what you can use are two different things. Its probably only fused at 2A.

Otherwise youll need to get a wire fish and start from scratch to pull the new transducer wire and plug through. If you follow the following steps it can be easily installed to a fuse box. What you need is probably only about 22gauge because these units draw only about 1Amp or so.

It is a very easy job to do. As you look the helm of the ship should be very close to the fish finder. Put the correct size fuse holder on the hot wire at the battery.

The transducer will usually have just one cable running out of it and the computer. Your basic fishfinder is made up of two separate devices that need installation and wiring in. Fish finder can be easily wired to a fuse box with the help of silicone sealant and power drill.

Use this as a reference when working on your boat wiring. The battery should be a combo startingdeep cycle battery usually sold as a marine battery. I have one battery for my boat that is for cranking all electronics.