It has gotten very quiet, so I thought I’d
see if things are really running.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian Cwilich
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk:
strange electrical problem and bilge pump advice
Thank you both for your
thoughts – I’ll look for the reset switch on the radio, though I
fear it’s done…
As for the bilge pump,
mine does not have a switch for it, it’s an automatic rule-mate wired
directly to the baterries I believe (not sure if via the fuse box or not).
I will explore some more tomorrow – it just occurred to me that my
batteries have an inline fuse near on one of the connections to them – that’s
probably for the bilge pump I imagine (as it’s the only thing that works
with the battery switch turned to OFF). Hopefully it’ll just be a
matter of replacing the fuse…
Sebastian
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ted glynn
Sent: Wednesday, July
12, 2006 2:17 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk:
strange electrical problem and bilge pump advice
My bilge pump is wired the same as John's, and the
only fuse is right in the 3-way lighted switch panel.
Ref. the stereo, you might check to see if it has an
obscure little "reset" button someplace on it. My Dual Marine
stereo/CD player has one and a friend of mine actually read the book that came
with it, and when he pushed the reset button, everything worked again!
The strange thing is that he's a guy too. I read the
book as a last resort.
Ted
Rayo de Luna
St. Clair Shores, MI
From:
"The Emmerichs"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: strange
electrical problem and bilge pump advice
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 21:19:53 -0400
I'm don't think I can
help you with your problem but I can tell you how mine is wired.
I'm the 4th owner of this
boat, I don't want to assign blame but I would be inclined to blame one of the PO's rather than Catalina.
Bilge Pump - Mine is
wired directly to the switch on the panel and then directly to battery 1.
When the panel switch is on, the pump works. The position of the battery
switch whether off, 1, 2, or both doesn't matter. I don't
remember if there is another fuse in the wiring other than what is on the
panel.
Stereo - My unit has
three wires, two power and the third a ground. One wire
powers the radio, the second the memory which retains the stations
settings, treble, bass, balance, and fade. Whoever installed the radio
wired both together so when the panel switch was turned off, the radio lost all
of its settings. I recently ran another wire to battery 1 from
the preset connection so I would not lose the memory when the panel switch
was turned off. In this wire or connection I installed a fuse. I
don't know if losing the memory connection would cause the radio not to
operate, and yours may be different.
Hope that all of this
rambling around will be of some help. Whoever did this re-wiring on my
boat just twisted the wires together and covered them with black tape. As I get
to them, I am using compression connections of the Ancor heat shrink variety.
Awesome wind the last
three Wednesdays (10 to 15) but we keep correcting lower
-----Original
Message-----
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Sebastian Cwilich
Sent: Saturday, July
08, 2006 2:06 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: catalina27-talk: strange
electrical problem and bilge pump advice
The other day I was installing
instruments on the boat and decided to use the same electrical wiring that lead
to the old (SR Mariner) instruments. The old instruments had more than
the 2 wires I needed, and I started using the tester to figure out which were
the correct ones. It SEEMS like in the process I must have shorted
something. I’m not sure exactly how, as it’s a completely
different circuit, but my stereo started blinking and then went out altogether,
and now I’ve realized it appears that my bilge pump was shorted as well.
SO, my questions are as follows:
-
I have a Rule Mate 750 bilge pump – is there some fuse or
something I can try changing, or do I throw it out and buy a new one? If
so, is there some replacement that will fit into the same base to avoid new
holes/etc?
-
Any thoughts on what might have happened that caused a stereo, NOT on
the circuit I was testing to short, WITHOUT even blowing the fuse protecting it
in the electrical panel? Any tests people suggest running to try and
figure out what happened? I realize this is probably not nearly enough
information to answer my questions, but thought perhaps there’s some
obvious things to try. Thanks.
Sebastian
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