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Originally Posted by maccauley123
Forgive my ignorance but why does it work for my house to be wired in series?. My living room for example, all lights and fixtures, are on a single circuit, wired back to a single switch on the main breaker panel. That circuit is a single wire run first to one outlet, then to another, and so on terminating on one of those. The single breaker switch energizes that whole circuilt and I turn on those I want. I would think for the boat it should work to do it the same way.
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macauley, that is a common misconception, but your whole house is wired in parallel. Hopefully this will clear things up
As I said, the hot wire from your panel goes to the positive terminal of ALL fixtures in the circuit, and the negative wire goes to the negative of all fixtures and you only have one positive and one negative going back to your panel or fuse.
This is the only diagram that I found and it shows just two "fixtures" on the circuit.
If you were to put 5 in the same manner, you would still only have one positive and one negative going back to the panel (battery). That is the reason why a lot of people tend to think that the house is wired in series, rather than in parallel, but the truth is that all fixtures share the same positive and the same negative wire.
