No electrical power, need help. looking for main line fuse (I Think)

[yates339]

so after making a dumb move yesterday this is my issue, I was diagnosing why my captain's call exhaust solenoids wasn't working correctly, they would hold open but wouldn't open on their own, i recently bought this boat about a month ago and it never worked right, so after doing some tests realized that the solenoids were fine and that they weren't receiving 12v to the harness, after back tracking all the wires i found that the starter had been recently replaced and that the power wire for the solenoids was not hooked back up and was ran down to a nut/bolt on the starter that has 12V constantly. Easy fix right?! well i immediately got a wrench and went to take of the nut and as soon as i turned the wrench it grounded out to the starter body for just a split second, and at that same moment i realized that i still had the battery switch in the ON position! so of course it blew a fuse or something somewhere as my radio stopped playing immediately. i went ahead and installed the 12V power line for the solenoids and then went about trying to get power back but I have yet to succeed,i don't have power anywhere, no dash, no radio, no nothing and all batteries are charged and hooked up, i checked the fuse panel under that dash and it isn't even getting power at all, so its somewhere before that, there is a 50amp push button style fuse on top of the motor but that wasn't blown, there are some fuses down by the battery for the bilge pump, radio memory, but i know those wouldn't cause the gauges not to run. so i am at a loss as to where to look or what my options are. i do know that when i flip on my battery switch that i do get power to the starter but seems no where after that, i'm also have yet to figure out where power gets distributed from the stock 2/0 power wires as they have to go into to some kind of distribution style block to beable to splice off to smaller wires.

any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Brandon

 

[JimG]

Not sure about your model, but you could have a fuse right on the starter... right where you bolted the exhaust solenoids.

Welcome to CSR!

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[yates339]

yes JimG you are exactly right! i went home just before you posted this and after doing some other searching and that was the problem, its a 90 amp fuse right on the starter that blew, went by my local boat shop and picked one up for 30 bucks and problem solved. everything now works as designed, thanks for the info! and just for anyone else that may need this info later when searching the part # is 79023A91

Thanks Again for the help.