Help wiring 1998 trophy 21ft-gctid357772

[Guest]

In the middle of bring a 1998 21 ft trophy up to my standards. Found two wires at battery switch (amoung others) one had a 3 amp inline fuse blown red wire with silver or white lines around the wire, the second one is a 10 amp brown wire with a red stripe running in the middle of wire not blown. Any ideas what they are?

Thanks

[Guest]

More than likely they powered electronics, i.e., a fish find/sonar. Most manufacturers recommend that type of setup, plus 3 amps are also traditionally the size for electronics. Does the Trophy have any electronics???

[Guest]

It used to have a FF but was not with the boat...

[Chief_Alen]

vhf ? If your installing new electronics go with new wiring.

[2850Bounty]

The brown w/ red stripe may power an add-on bigle pump switch since brown can be found associated with bigle pumps and float switches.

During your clean-up process, you'll no doubt discover what these circuits have been used for.

Suggestion:

Since you're bringing the boat up to your standards, why not re-do as much of this old wiring as possible?

Use the rear #1 and #2 MBSS terminals for your O/B Charger leads.

Use the rear #2 terminal (your house bank) to power your bilge pump float switch!

Use the "common" MBSS terminal to power a remotely located breaker panel for Nav and Radio gear.

All fused, of course.



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[JimMc]

This might be helpful.

http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/doityourself/wiring/wiring.htm