[C320-list] The bilge pump float switch

[Jack McDonough]

Warren:

Yes, my master battery switch is on the starboard side just forward of the 
head bulkhead. The float switch wiring must vary from year to year. Mine 
definitely has two black wires and they definitely enter a conduit that goes 
to starboard.  But the sleeve carrying the two wires doesn't emerge from the 
end of the conduit, as far as I can tell. Everyone has been very helpful but 
I think it's impossible to appreciate the problem unless you're actually 
looking at the layout. I'll keep at it.

Jack
#947




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren Updike" <wupdike at hotmail.com>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] The bilge pump float switch


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