Men, we've been ranged! DIVE! DIVE!
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>From: Phil Agur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Jul 14, 2006 11:41 AM
>To: [email protected], [email protected]
>Subject: catalina27-talk: Ping!
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>It has gotten very quiet, so I thought I'd see if things are really running.
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>Phil
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>-----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
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>Thank you both for your thoughts - I'll look for the reset switch on the
>radio, though I fear it's done.
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>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.
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>Sebastian
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>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
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>My bilge pump is wired the same as John's, and the only fuse is right in the
>3-way lighted switch panel.
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>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!
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>The strange thing is that he's a guy too. I read the book as a last resort.
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>Ted
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>Rayo de Luna
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>St. Clair Shores, MI
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>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
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>Sebastian,
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>I'm don't think I can help you with your problem but I can tell you how mine
>is wired.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>John Emmerich
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>5874 Fortitude
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>Awesome wind the last three Wednesdays (10 to 15) but we keep correcting
>lower
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
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>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.
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>SO, my questions are as follows:
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>- 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?
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>- 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.
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>Sebastian
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