[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Brad Kuether]

The sleeve within the sleeve came out of the bilge with two "hot wires", 
made a stop at the bilge pump, where it picked up another wire, and then 
back to the panel.

Nothing going to the battery.

I had a black ground from the cheap POS float switch, the new one didn't 
have one so I rolled it up and tied it back to the bilge pump for save 
keeping.

Everything works.

-Brad, Mary, Monica, and Jarod
"Independence"
2004 Catalina 320 Hull 1006
Middle River, MD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack McDonough" <mcdonough5 at verizon.net>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:05 PM
Subject: [C320-list] The bilge pump float switch


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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