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Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 11:47 pm
by gettaway
wowser, thanks for the tip, I will look into your previous post.
I found a few scary things when I removed the engines and subsequesntly the batteries and wiring. I found + and - wire that was conected to the battery and ran up under the floor near near the lower helm, connected to NOTHING! I also found a set of wires +- that ran through the bulk head to behind the refrigerator, also connected to the battery, and not connected. What makes it even more scary is the fact they were both un fused.
Got to love used boats
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:16 am
by Allen Sr
Well do it right and put a fuse on them!!
I know what you mean about scary. The previous idiot (ooops I meant owner) decided to put an a/c electrical outlet up on the bridge inline with the heater that is there. Standard H/D store bought box, household outlet (not GFCI), He did put a weather cover on the box though. All this said and done put the side panels back in and kinked the airlines over to the new air horn he installed!! I dont want to tell you how many dc lines I have found going to nothing and still 'LIVE'!!!! Just be careful and go thru it good. Good luck.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 9:25 pm
by wowzer52
Gettaway, search "solenoid" and it comes right up. I too took out approx ten unused 12v lines going everywhere, some connected and some not but tit sure feels good when it's done.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:50 pm
by gettaway
thanks for the information.
I removed the "ad on" hard wired cirtcuits to the batteries, if I find something that all of a sudden does not work anymore, I'll run it through the distribution panels. or connect them correctly.
Iplan to move the battery charger and adding an inverter and mount them insied the sliding door storage area on the port side of the salon, getting them out of the engine room.
The mercruiser wiring harness is a very neet and tidy wire bundle, and house wiring is tucked up under the sole, so my goal os to not have any loose or random wiring visible when you pullup the engine hatches.
I was reading my Trojan manual last night, and it seems as if the Trojans included as standard a solenoid system as you decribed Wowser. I can't seem to locate this on the wiring schematic, yet, but am definately interested and will do something like this.
I currently have 2 8D batteries and a octopus of #1 wire and battery switches, but no schematic ort diagram to describe the function of this mess. I removed the whole bundle and will fix this problem when the engines go back in.
I'd like to have two starting batteries and 4 6V golf cart batteries for the the house loads. nothin' but money!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 6:51 pm
by rossjo
