2005 320 Galley Light Switches

[pineknollj]

I would like to be able to turn on and off selected lights in the galley. The switch as you start down the stairs on the left turns on my lighting below decks. I would like to be able to just turn on lighting at a select spot, like the bedding area to read but in order to do so, I must leave on the master switch (the one at the stairs). Leaving that switch on leaves on two lights that are overhead of the below decks control panel.

Do I need to add another switch on the circuit where the main switch is located or ???

I appreciate the guidance and have asked a few electricians and most are not 12v guys but house electricians so they have not been of assistance.

Thank You!

John in Pine Knoll Shores, NC:smt100

 

[CliffA]

John,
I am not an electrician, but to be able to control different lights in the cabin I think would take significant rewiring and adding switches.....I would think that you would need individual switches for each light or each combo of lights you want to control.....for example if the master light switch controls 4 zones of lights now you would need to break up the wiring to that switch into 4 separate switches.....one for each zone....

again, I am not an electrician so this could not be accurate....

cliff

 

[pineknollj]

Thank you...seems like a poor design by SR but surely other owners must have worked around and fixed the issue. Prior owner took out the offending bulbs in those two fixtures over the control panel. All other lights have their own on/off switches so maybe just find the offending lights and add a switch for them?

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[Irie308]

Previous owner on our boat added a switch that controls the lights near the bulk head (near the control panel). This allows us to then leaving on the main cabin lights then from the galley control the 2 main cabin lights as well as the ones over the pull out. I can also manually control the lights in the aft and v-berth as well as the lights in the head.