[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Jason Alexander]

That's odd. I have hull #782 and my battery switch is in the starboard side.  Do they switch back and forth?

On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
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>> 
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> -- 
> Chris Burti
> Farmville, NC