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Agreed. But galvanic isolator should be mandatory, you're going to be plugged into shore power sometimes.

Green wire The reason the plugged in shore power matters is that the green wire ground gets connected to the DC negative of your system. any stray dc current in the water can use this as a return path causing rapid wasting on your boat. A properly functioning galvanic isolator will prevent this.

Great post. But just a note of caution about heat guns. They are very useful, but you need to understand how they work. You are not just measuring temp at the red dot, it is the center of the cone that you are measuring. The guns have a spec usually in degrees of Arc that they measure. So...

Keep the lights, but man you need to spring for a new tape measure.?

Don't post here much, so a little hesitant to jump in the middle of this. My back ground is heavily electrical. Not Marine. I ran the electrical department for a large utility power plant. I concerned with some of the ratings, and lack thereof, being thrown around. If you are going to attach...

I looked up FSR sds and it's main ingredient is oxalic acid. Also earlier post said Lysol toilet bowl cleaner was the same as FSR, but it's sds say main ingredient is hydrocloric acid, not the same.

Know how to use your radar Wouldn't say you need it on all the time, but need to use it often enough to get it up and running quickly. If you get caught in an unexpected fog or some other low vis situation, the last thing you want to be doing is trying to figure out how to get the radar...