I have a Diawa tanacom 1000 electric reel which comes with a power cord that consists of one red and one black wire connected to two alligator clips. These you clip to a battery and are good to go. Many folks use lawnmower batteries which are easily portable.
I have 15amp electric plugs wired to my house battery which are mounted under the gunwales. They are typical 15 amp locking dc female outlets. The entire system is DC.
I bought a maricom locking 15 amp male plug which I want to splice to the two wires supplying the reel and plug it into my under gunwale boat outlets. When I open the maricom plug to splice it, it appears to be ready for AC power.( I know the boat is DC) The male plug has a green, black and white terminal. I guess I should place the reels positive red into the plugs hot black and the reels black into the plugs neutral white and forget about the green ground? Or is it black to black and red to white? That seems backwards.
Anyone have any experience with this?
Your right the first time. Red to gold screw, white to silver screw. If I didn’t wire the female end I would pull it apart to see that it matches!
If any doubt at all, you can always just check the female plug on the boat with a DVM and see which 2 give you +12V, then wire the male plug with blk/red to match where you had the blk/red meter leads when you read +12V.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki
Good advice. I am assuming the boat is wired with correct orientation. Ill measure with a meter.
Works like a charm. I made sure the receptacle was wired correctly with a meter.Reel red to plug black to receptacle red. Reel black to plug white to receptacle black.
DC reel to plug ac to receptacle dc.
Thanks to all who chimed in. No excuse to not get the big one this year.