Re: Stus-List Electrical help please

Thanks for the help everyone. Finally got around to checking it all again. Got it fixed. The positive and negative wires that the fan came with we're both white. I'm guessing for cosmetics. Somehow I wired them backwards when connecting it to the fan itself. So I had a negative charge on the

Re: Stus-List Electrical help please

You mentioned that you are not an electrical expert so I apologize if this line of questions and comments seem condescending. It's not intentional. Where are you hooking up the ground or black wire? There should be a ground bus near-ish to the breakers. That's your negative. All of the other

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Thanks, Fred! Nice to be here. Good entertainment! Boatless for the moment but still involved. Rich. On Apr 30, 2017, at 14:40, Frederick G Street via CnC-List wrote: Yeah, I’ve got one of those, too… :^) Rich, nice to have you back on the list! — Fred Fred

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Yeah, I’ve got one of those, too… :^) Rich, nice to have you back on the list! — Fred Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > On Apr 30, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Rich Knowles via CnC-List > wrote: > > And… If you

Re: Stus-List Electrical help please

And… If you really want to go completely mad, get a tone type wire and cable tester. Lots available on Amazon etc. for all kinds of cables. See https://www.amazon.ca/Automotive-Tracker-Circuit-Finder-Vehicle/dp/B00P0QKRG6/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8=1493573546=8-8=wire+tracer

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One other gizmo I’ve found helpful, especially when working on boat electrics alone (most of the time…), is a 12-volt Sonalert (beeper) with a couple of feet of wire and alligator clips. It makes it much easier to diagnose when you’ve found the right breaker, or bad connections; wire it across

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Couple items I find useful when troubleshooting electrical problems are alligator clip test leads. Clip one end to your multimeter probe and then the other end to a ground or positive. Will free up one hand and make things easier. I made one that is about 20 feet long. I can clip it to the

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Hey Rich, thanks for those steps. I will definitely check the breaker itself as you described. I did however try to connect it to the input side of the breaker directly with nothing happening. So even if the breaker is bad, it was out of the circuit. I definitely need to find out what voltage I'm

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Hi Kevin. I suggest the following steps: 1. Use a decent digital voltmeter to test the circuit as follows. If you don’t have one, head off to the store with at least $25.00 in your hot little hands and buy one. It will be very useful. 2. Make sure the panel breaker feeding the fan is turned

Stus-List Electrical help please

I'm trying to install some cabin fans. ( https://www.westmarine.com/buy/caframo--sirocco-cabin-fans--P012_361_002_507 ). Amperage High: 0.31 Amps Medium: 0.24 Amps Low: 0.14 Amps I wired it all up yesterday to my breaker panel and when trying to turn it on, nothing happened. I then took it off