[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Chris Burti]

Sorry..to clarify...I was only talking about the bilge pump
wiring...Battery selector switch and Master/Windlass panel are on the
starboard side.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Jason Alexander
<alexander.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Burti
>> Farmville, NC
>



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Chris Burti
Farmville, NC