Marine Electronics Articles, Guides and Tutorials
Dive into our Articles, Guides and Tutorials to discover everything you need to confidently install, maintain, and master your marine electronics with friendly, expert advice.
Practical pre‑departure electronics checks for occasional boaters: battery testing, charger shutdown, VHF, EPIRB, chartplotter boot, and a compact spares list to avoid common failures before your trip.
Batteries can be a huge investment: a battery monitor helps you to look after them and ensure that you get a good service life from them.
For those looking to install, configure, repair or otherwise tweak boat instrument networks, several apps for boat networking are essential.
Think of electricity like cars driving on a three‑lane road that narrows down to one lane. A fuse is a small, weak section of that road made to carry only a certain number of cars.
A quick, methodical boat pre‑season checklist saves time, money, nasty surprises, and worry. This guide walks you through the checks that matter for pleasure boats and smaller commercial craft.
This guide concentrates on electric bilge pump installation for DIY boaters. After stating why, a manual pump is also required it runs through the three main methods of wiring a bilge pump.
This guide introduces boaters to the essentials of AIS, demystifying its operation, benefits, limitations, and practical integration with other onboard equipment.
This article gives a practical, easy-to-follow primer for wiring a small trailerable boat. It explains a minimal, sensible layout:
Your VHF marine radio is one of the most important safety items on board. The simple act of adding VHF marine radio testing to your maintenance schedule will ensure that your VHF marine radio is working reliably before every season.
Following the TweedsMarine Marine Electronics ethos of helping boaters to make their life simpler and safer, especially when dealing with electrical and electronics subjects, I have made a few more calculators.
This tool helps you estimate the size, battery chemistry and cost of the battery bank you need for your boat based on your daily power usage and system settings.
Understanding your boat's electrical systems, including the boat wiring diagram, is crucial for ensuring safety and reliability on the water. Proper knowledge can prevent potential hazards and costly repairs.