Ours is wired with a three position rocker powered via a fuse directly from battery 1. The main battery selector switch is therefore bypassed.
[Auto] sends power to the bilge float switch which in turn is connected directly to the pump. In auto if you raise the float the pump runs. [OFF] removes all power to the bilge pump system so you can stop from pumping contaminates overboard. In [Off] if you raise the float nothing happens. [ON] sends power around the float switch directly to the pump. I use this every time I prepare to leave the boat so I know the pump works, then I leave it in [Auto]. Phil Agur <http://www.catalina27.org/public_pages/profile270.htm> s/v Wing Tip C270 LE #184 MMSI 366901790 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Ginter Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IC27A] water under engine Hi All, We finally got some decent breeze, and after sailing heeled over, I noticed water on the floor at the galley. We had been heeling to port. I pulled the front engine cover and found water standing in the little tray under the engine. It had been fine until the boat tipped enough to spill some out onto the floor. Can I safely assume that this is from the packing gland leaking when first put into the water? And that it will stop now that it's good and wet again? I dried out the tray to keep an eye on it, and also the bilge. Should the water have drained into the bilge? There are 3 little holes at the front of the tray under the engine, maybe they are plugged? Also, I'm uncertain about the bilge pump wiring. When I bought the boat I was told that if I left the bilge pump rocker switch on auto, then it would run as needed regardless of any other setting. Then someone else told me that I had to have the bilge pump toggle switch turned on in order for the pump to work automatically. After drying out the bilge last night, I tried lifting the switch in the bilge, and found that it wouldn't turn on when I lifted it unless the toggle switch was on, and that the auto setting on the black rocker switch seemed to do nothing. This don't seem right! It's a C270, 2004 vintage.
