Work we've finished.

Boats around Greater Victoria and the Gulf Islands. House banks, charging and distribution — photographed as we left them.

Recent Installations

Tidy wiring is the whole argument.

These are our own photographs of jobs we've completed. Where a part matters we've named it — if you're comparing quotes, that's the detail worth comparing. Tap any photo to see it full size.

Marine · DC Systems9 photos

House banks and DC distribution

Where most of the trouble on a boat starts. Every positive feed fused at its source, negatives and bonding landed on their own labelled bars, and enough slack left that whoever opens the locker next can actually work in it.

Lithium house bank of four Victron batteries with a separate orange SOK battery, all strapped down
Lithium house bank — four Victron LiFePO4 blocks, with a separate SOK 314Ah battery carrying the thruster and windlass so those loads never pull the house bank down. Everything strapped, everything in split loom.
Positive distribution busbar with labelled fuse blocks and a labelled negative and bonding bar
Positive distribution bar with each feed fused at the source — davit solar, bimini solar, charger — and the negatives and bonding landed on their own labelled bars beside it.
DC distribution board built on DIN rail with labelled relays and a windlass breaker
DC distribution rebuilt on DIN rail — ferruled conductors into the terminal blocks, labelled relays for the windlass and the fridge, and the windlass on a breaker of its own.
Battery switches, fused positives and labelled busbars beside a Perkins marine diesel
Main DC switching beside a Perkins M90: battery selector, engine/house tie, fused positives under clear covers, and every negative and bonding conductor labelled where it lands.
Magnum inverter in a locker alongside windlass breakers and busbars
Magnum inverter on its own fused feed, sharing a locker with the breakers for the bow and gunwale windlasses. Cables clamped, not cable-tied to whatever was nearest.
Four AGM batteries strapped down with covered fuse blocks, loomed cable and a battery monitor
Four-battery AGM bank, strapped down, with covered fuse blocks above, cable in loom and clamped, and a Victron battery monitor at the end of the bank.
Panel with engine battery selector, DC house bank switch and breakers for distribution and anchor windlass
Engine battery selector, DC house bank switch and the breakers for the distribution panel and anchor windlass, on one labelled panel.
Two fuse blocks for the bow thruster power supply, wired with heat-shrinked terminals
Power supply for the bow thruster, fused and terminated with adhesive-lined heat shrink on every terminal.
Battery in a sealed box, strapped down onto a bolted bracket
Boxed, strapped and bolted to a bracket. A battery that can move in a knockdown is the hazard nobody thinks about until it moves.
Marine · Charging and AC4 photos

Charging, inverters and shore power

Solar, alternator and shore power, each on its own controller. A lithium bank should set its own charge limits rather than inherit whatever the engine’s regulator happens to do — and the AC side gets the same isolation and protection as the DC.

Two Victron SmartSolar MPPT controllers labelled AFT SOLAR PANEL and FWD SOLAR PANEL
One SmartSolar MPPT 150/85 per array, labelled AFT and FWD, so shade across one panel doesn't drag the other one down with it.
Victron Orion XS DC-DC charger mounted beside a Victron Phoenix Smart Charger
A Victron Orion XS takes the alternator feed and a Phoenix Smart Charger handles shore power — two separate paths, both under the bank's own limits.
Victron Quattro 12/5000/220 inverter charger with the wiring cover removed
Victron Quattro 12/5000/220 with the cover off: heat-shrunk battery lugs, AC leads landed on their terminals, and the cable bundle below it in loom.
Victron MultiPlus 12/2000/80 mounted in a cabinet beside a Frigoboat refrigeration compressor
Victron MultiPlus 12/2000/80 mounted in a cabinet beside the Frigoboat Frigomatic Capri 50 F compressor, with the cable run dressed in loom.
Interior of the Everblock Electric work van, stocked with organised tool cases and materials
How we turn up

Most of it is on the truck.

Cable, lugs, fuses, terminations and the tooling to make them properly. Diagnosis and repair usually happen on the same visit, which is the difference between a boat that goes out this weekend and one that waits for a parts order.

The inside of the van on a normal working day.

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