Electrical Help

[MsgMills]

Ok, I just got my boat back from the dealer and of course their closed now until tomorrow at 10:00 am... I got my trolling motor repaired... Everything else worked fine, before I took it to the dealer...

Now I was out in the garage checking over everything and none of my acc. work, horn, courtesy lights, graph on dash...nuttin...But the graph up front, the power light will come on but not stay on...if I hold the pwr button in, it will stay lit up as the back light only.... I checked the fuse panel buttons and breakers everything seems fine.... Great Battery amperage, tilt & trim work fine, Big Motor alarm sounds when key is turned on...

Pulling my hair out over this one...Can't figure it out...

2005 Triton 196 model

[Maximus]

You should have a main power switch in the rear near your batteries. It may be turned off and your front graph may be wired directly to your battery.

[MsgMills]

Checked that already as well, it's shows on, but maybe it is supposed to be covered so that the off word is visible...Will go try that to see if it will work that way....

Ok...check the red switch as well...still nothing...I guess my fishing trip is now officially canceled...

[RoadToad]

Is it possible you've got a short somewhere? I don't know what your wiring looks like, and this may not help you at all, but on my little runabout, everything's wired pretty much directly to the battery, and if I'm not careful, sometimes those connections will touch, and I'll have a situation like yours - none of the attached devices will work. If I just just loosen and then reconnect everything carefully, that'll take care of it.

[MsgMills]

Help from the dealer finally....Had a bad 40 amp breaker that was mounted on the back of the boat...Spring was broke inside breaker, making the reset button stay popped out and not able to be pushed back in...

So this might info might help someone else out in the future...Thanks for info fella's... Now let's get on the water.....

[DaveR]

hope you didn't miss your fishing trip.

[MsgMills]

Yep, by the time we got everything figured out it was too late to go, besides I'm glad I didn't get to go due to the cold snap that came in... Maybe one day next week....

[EtecRanger205]

I would hate to think that my service wiring is protected by a 40 amp breaker.
The trolling motor uses a 40 amp breaker, but the largest breaker on the main
wiring for all the accessories such as you mentioned should only be protected
by a 20 amp max, but more like a 15 amp breaker. If you get a short at 40 amps with the small wiring, you will see lots of smoke before the breaker trips..Good luck..

[DaveR]

Main breakers are sized to protect main feed wiring. Thus breaker is sized according to size of wiring. Individual electronics are always required to be fused separately. Many boats have additional breaker/fuse panels that are complanion to the accessory switches and many accessory switches are fused at 5, 10, 15A. I'd believe the motor draws very large amounts of current when starter is engaged, my wiring is fairly large from the starting and accessory battery

[MsgMills]

Yes my main wire of the acc. is very big to the hot side of the battery, is as thick as the main motor hot wire. The wiring system on my boat as I can tell is very impressive. That is why such a big breaker.