RE: catalina27-talk: strange electrical problem and bilge pump advice

[Sebastian Cwilich]

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: catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com [mailto:catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com] On Behalf Of ted glynn Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:17 PM To: catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com 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: catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com To: <catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com> Subject: RE: catalina27-talk: strange electrical problem and bilge pump advice Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 21:19:53 -0400 Sebastian,   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.   John Emmerich 5874 Fortitude Awesome wind the last three Wednesdays (10 to 15) but we keep correcting lower -----Original Message----- From: catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com [mailto:catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com]On Behalf Of Sebastian Cwilich Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 2:06 PM To: catalina27-talk@memberclicks.com 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