3888 12V light failure-gctid344355

[Guest]

I currently live on my 3888. I thought I knew all the systems fairly well, but last nite the 12V lights on the port side only in my mid-cabin and head and shower all quit.

They are not seperately fused at the helm breaker panel.

Does anyone know if they placed a fuse panel anywhere else on this boat!??

Thanks in advance!

(I am only the 2nd owner so I don't believe anything was changed...)

Jeff

"30 Below"

[LTCret]

My 1988 has 12 volt breakers on the panel forward of the wheel and also the pop out breakers on the face of the lower station to the starboard of the wheel.

No other breaker panels.

I am not on the boat, but only 10 minutes away. If you do not find the problem, I will go look at mine for you.

P.S. In my experience,If you do not have a popped breaker,this type of failure is likely a bad ground. If I recall correctly, the ground is one big loop.

Good Luck

[Guest]

On many of the Bays, the grounds are just tied together. This would cause multiple failures. Try running your meter from the 12volt light (positive) to another ground. See if you get power. That would isolate the problem to your grounds.

[SuperiorDiver]

On my 4087, the lights to the aft stateroom, shower, head etc. all quit. I found a corroded connector for all of the wires behind the stateroom closet. There was a leak in the power cord retractor, just happened to be right above the connector. I had to cut the connector out and reconnect the wires. Not sure of the layout of your boat, but you may want to start tracing wires.

[Guest]

On our 3870 several 12V lights were not working - upon opening the switch plates found several connectors simply working loose from the switch connection tabs. Multiple switch plate hot (positive) circuits are typically daisy chained, so if the incomming hot from the helm 12V main panel to the first switch is loose, all the lights sub-fed from that switch stop working. The connections can work loose over time from vibration, changes in temperature, or tugging on the wires from unrelated work or movement. Check the other items in this thread as well, plus check for corrossion. Good Luck, Doug S.

[PortHoleDiver]

Would like to know what you find is the problem. Have not had the problem yet but mine is an 89 3870. Just never knowwhen I might need your solution.

UOTE=30 below;646966]I currently live on my 3888. I thought I knew all the systems fairly well, but last nite the 12V lights on the port side only in my mid-cabin and head and shower all quit.

They are not seperately fused at the helm breaker panel.

Does anyone know if they placed a fuse panel anywhere else on this boat!??

Thanks in advance!

(I am only the 2nd owner so I don't believe anything was changed...)

Jeff

"30 Below"[/QUOTE]