Did a little early morning fishing this moring with a friend about 7 miles offshore. Catching a few baracudas having fun, and my friend says he caught a wiff of what smells like an electrical fire. That got my attention, and then I caught the same wiff, and began sniffing around down in the cabin. I turned off the battery switch still smelled it and then saw a little smoke haze in the cabin. But, with the batteries off?
Oh! The bildge pump is the only thing not going through the battery switch. Pulled up the little hatch in te floor, and the front bildge pump was melting and smoking. It is on a float switch and there is no water in the bilge. I immediately cut the wires which cured the problem, but why would a bilge pump, with the helm switch off, and no water to move the float switch fry like that?
That scared me...Wouldnt it be on a fuse in case of some sort of dead short problem? I have not investigated all the wiring to see where the failure was.
Oh! The bildge pump is the only thing not going through the battery switch. Pulled up the little hatch in te floor, and the front bildge pump was melting and smoking. It is on a float switch and there is no water in the bilge. I immediately cut the wires which cured the problem, but why would a bilge pump, with the helm switch off, and no water to move the float switch fry like that?
That scared me...Wouldnt it be on a fuse in case of some sort of dead short problem? I have not investigated all the wiring to see where the failure was.
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