[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Chris Burti]

Still the same on #867. One hot wire runs from the 'auto' pole of the
panel switch to the float switch and from the float switch back to the
bilge pump under the nav seat. The other hot lead runs from the
'manual' pole to positive side of the pump and the third wire is the
negative lead from the pump back to the common buss.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The wiring on our '94 is undoubtedly different than on yours; because, I
> believe your master battery switch is on the stbd side while mine is on the
> port on the main panel.  On mine, the bilge pump wires all go to the back of
> the panel via the space under the galley sink.  From there, the power is
> attached directly to the battery side of the main switch so it can never be
> turned off.  The other wires go to the 3-position bilge pump switch on the
> panel.  That may not be of much help to you.  Perhaps someone with a hull
> closer to yours can help?
>
> Warren & Pattie Updike
> 1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack McDonough [mailto:mcdonough5 at verizon.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:05 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> 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
>
> #947
>
>
>



-- 
Chris Burti
Farmville, NC