a lot of confussion on "red" wire.

interesting to know that your radio would draw .5a while off. that's
wierd! I dont' ahve any master breakers in my boat. and I have a
programmable radio in my boat. and the only time that my battery has
been down is when my daughter left a seperate 500W (questionable power
to say the least!) Graphic EQ turned on. I wired that up with the
rasio, and cured that...real quick!

I've seen main feed "red" wires hooked right straight to the battery
post from the factory, and I've seen theem also hooked up in the GM
automotive conventional style... hooked to the starter solonoid to
catch the battery cable end.

hmmm. different engineers have different ideas.....

RG wrote:
"TomC" wrote in message
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FWIW. In my 2000 Sea Ray 185, the thin red fused (10amp) wire from the
battery is for the amfm radio memory. I believe it does create a small
drain because the radio needs some juice for the memory.
TomC


Hmmm, standard practice is for the thin yellow wire to be the unswitched
12V+ source for memory presets, and the red wire to be the switched 12V+
source that actually powers the unit.