Hi Steve What you describe is exactly my plan to entirely replace the wiring to the light over the sink. I am installing a new LED white / red fixture and will run the wires outside the panel the short distance from the fixture through the panel into the shelf area behind the sliding doors. Should not be noticeable as will be behind the fixture out of sight and will avoid a host of issues trying to thread it. I am also installing a new LED fixture in the main cabin ceiling, and moving the original fluorescent to over the stove / ice box for better light there. The next challenge will be getting power to the fixtures downstream in the circuit.
Stay tuned John and Maryann Legacy III 1982 C&C 34 Noank, CT -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of OldSteveH Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 8:32 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List 34 wiring - also SeaTalk cable I would like to piggy back on this thread for a similar reason. I am making my SeaTalkNG trunk permanent, ie hiding the cable away. It needs to go from electrical panel (portside) to my wind instruments just above that same galley light (starbd side of doorway). I have been planning to route the cable as follows: 1. feed the cable in the space between the cabin liner and outer panel, down past the galley light and into the small shelf area below the companionway. 2. It needs to go this way because there is also the SeaTalk backbone connector which I plan to locate inside that shelf area. 3. from there into the engine compartment and over to the quarterberth (for non 34 owners that's portside, same side as electrical panel) 4. through battery compartment to port quarter outer gap and into lower left corner of electrical panel. Alternate for 3 is above quarterberth inner liner to electrical panel. That was going to happen this weekend, however you appear to be saying the gap will be filled with foam. Even without the foam, this plan still eaves the challenge of penetrating into the small shelf area. The gap at that point is filled with something, maybe just the same foam. In my case there is already an existing hole further to port side of this shelf area and I can use that if I have to though would prefer a shorter, cleaner run. It may not be easy to fish the cable that far inside the liner. Yes, there are no helpful access panels around the companionway shelf area. Wouldn't that solve the problem? :D To echo John - Anybody done this? Any advice? Cheers Steve Hood S/V Diamond Girl C&C 34 Lions Head ON ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:28:20 -0400 From: "John and Maryann Read" <johnpr...@comcast.net> To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Stus-List 34 wiring Message-ID: <007501cf640b$17212620$45637260$@net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" In the process of changing the interior light over the galley sink have discovered the wiring has completely corroded. No wire strands ? just dust. It is 2 wires each positive and negative joined at the light. Logic says one set goes back to the circuit breakers and the other to more lights going forward. The question is how the wire is run. The wires are embedded in what appears to be the foam used in construction to adhere the liner to the interior surfaced of the cabin top and there is no way to see. There is no slack in the wires. Removing access panels offers no clues. I could just run another set of wires through the engine compartment for this light, but then I would lose power for lights going forward ?? I am reluctant to start opening large holes in the liner to access the wires. Any thoughts?? And TIA John and Maryann Legacy III 1982 C&C 34 Noank, CT _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
