Gofirstclass
Well-Known Member
It wasn't the way I'd planned on spending the day, but yesterday I had to replace my 3 port batteries. They're down in just about the most inaccessible part of the boat that I could imagine so they're a beatch to change. I got them out OK, and before I removed them I took phone pics of the battery cable attachments so I could make certain I got them hooked back up the same way.
The wife of one of the crew who helped get me down here had driven down and brought GW on Monday, so he and I went to Costco and returned them. It only cost me $25 for the exchange of the three old batteries for the new ones. Thanks Costco. We got back to the boat and I installed them, making sure the cable hookups were the same.
But when I turned on the battery switches back on and checked the electrical panel, things were not as they should have been. Here are the indications I'm getting or not getting....
-the lighted numbers on the indicator panel that show the power levels are not illuminated, but if I flip the emergency start switch they come on.
-a few of the 12vdc lights don't work unless the emer switch is held in.
-last night the head wouldn't work (the vacuum part) unless the emer switch was held in. This morning it worked when I used it though. ?????
I do have 24V to the engine start batteries on both sides. I have 240VAC and 110VAC coming in through the panel and it goes to all the appliances and lights correctly, even though none of the lighted numbers on the main elec panel are on.
I quit troubleshooting and scratching my head last night around 6:30, figuring if I slept on it I'd have an "aha moment". Well that didn't happen either.
Any ideas on where to look for the problem would be appreciated. Oh, one other thing, when I fire up the genset and set the breakers to that source, all the lights function normally.
The wife of one of the crew who helped get me down here had driven down and brought GW on Monday, so he and I went to Costco and returned them. It only cost me $25 for the exchange of the three old batteries for the new ones. Thanks Costco. We got back to the boat and I installed them, making sure the cable hookups were the same.
But when I turned on the battery switches back on and checked the electrical panel, things were not as they should have been. Here are the indications I'm getting or not getting....
-the lighted numbers on the indicator panel that show the power levels are not illuminated, but if I flip the emergency start switch they come on.
-a few of the 12vdc lights don't work unless the emer switch is held in.
-last night the head wouldn't work (the vacuum part) unless the emer switch was held in. This morning it worked when I used it though. ?????
I do have 24V to the engine start batteries on both sides. I have 240VAC and 110VAC coming in through the panel and it goes to all the appliances and lights correctly, even though none of the lighted numbers on the main elec panel are on.
I quit troubleshooting and scratching my head last night around 6:30, figuring if I slept on it I'd have an "aha moment". Well that didn't happen either.
Any ideas on where to look for the problem would be appreciated. Oh, one other thing, when I fire up the genset and set the breakers to that source, all the lights function normally.