[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Jack McDonough]

Warren, Chris, Brad and anyone else:

Here's the status on my bumbling efforts to replace my bilge pump float switch:

I removed the defective Rule switch with no problem but I can't trace the switch's two black wires to the battery. The wires go into a ¾-inch corrugated black plastic sleeve that disappears into a conduit that leads to the starboard side of the boat into the battery compartment along with another, larger sleeve.  But the smaller, ¾-inch sleeve doesn't emerge from the other end of the conduit as far as I can tell.

 

My questions are these: Where does that sleeve go, and do the two wires eventually attach to the forward or aft battery?  It seems that, at some point, those two wires apparently merge with something else.

 

There is, of course, precious little room in that crowded battery compartment, so it's difficult to trace anything while standing on my head holding a flashlight. 



Sorry to take up your time with such a klutzy problem. (14-2 house wire doesn't both me at all. But this is something else.)



Jack

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