Electrical guru's...help a newbie will ya? 1995 Cig TG bow light
09-04-2010, 09:23 PM
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This is what you need for your lights to work. It is missing the ground for the switch to light up the LED feedback.
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=391779
http://forums.iboats.com/showthread.php?t=391779
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09-04-2010, 09:24 PM
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It is possible that the last remaining poll is your ground. It is so hard to see what you have going on in your picture.....
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09-04-2010, 11:29 PM
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Audiofn I wish you were in my boat, been f"in with this damn thing ALL day! lol...wish I knew more about electrical. Anyways, I temporarily got it working, here's what I did. I bypassed the anchor portion of the switch (since I don't have the mast light it's not a problem right now) and only wired in the NAV lights.
Here's what I got. 3 lights total, bow light, transom light and Anchor (mast) light.
Here's what I was able to do with the switch.
Top right terminal = Brown/cream wire which seems to be a ground
Middle right and middle left terminals = power in (red wire to middle right jumped to middle left)
Bottom right = two white wires, I assume these are power out to bow light and transom light
Bottom left = green wire (think this is also a ground because I accidentally connected it to top right terminal and bow light still worked)
Top left = empty for now
With this arrangement the switch doesn't illuminate, but both the bow and transom light work. I didn't use the blue jumper at all.
Does this help any? I looked at the link you attached and that only has a anchor and bow light, no transom light.
Thank you very much for the help!! I really appreciate it...I'm almost there, at least the lights work now, but I know it's still not right...and so that drives me crazy
Here's what I got. 3 lights total, bow light, transom light and Anchor (mast) light.
Here's what I was able to do with the switch.
Top right terminal = Brown/cream wire which seems to be a ground
Middle right and middle left terminals = power in (red wire to middle right jumped to middle left)
Bottom right = two white wires, I assume these are power out to bow light and transom light
Bottom left = green wire (think this is also a ground because I accidentally connected it to top right terminal and bow light still worked)
Top left = empty for now
With this arrangement the switch doesn't illuminate, but both the bow and transom light work. I didn't use the blue jumper at all.
Does this help any? I looked at the link you attached and that only has a anchor and bow light, no transom light.
Thank you very much for the help!! I really appreciate it...I'm almost there, at least the lights work now, but I know it's still not right...and so that drives me crazy
09-05-2010, 08:41 PM
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If you want you can put your test light on the other posts and see if that makes it so the LED lights up. If it does that will give you a clue about were your ground locations need to be.
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09-07-2010, 09:40 AM
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Bumpin this up to the top for everyone who's back from vacation/long weekend and bored at work 
Audiofn one of the main problems I'm having is that I can't figure out which wires are grounds. I found what I thought was a ground block and tried wiring a new wire as ground so that I had one ground on the top of the switch and one ground on the bottom of the switch and that triped the breaker
so that's when I just temporarily wired it as I said above.
I read that I need to have a jumper wire so that the mast light will also turn on when the NAV lights are on, so that's obviously what the blue wire was doing, but I think it was wired to the wrong terminals. It was going from the top rt term to the bottom rt term and the bottom rt term had what I think is a grnd wire on it, so it was jumping to a grnd, shouldn't the jumper be between the two power out terms?
How can I determine grnd for certain if I can't find a grnd block or trace the wires all the way to the end? Someone told me to put the test light on a known 12v source and then when it lights it should be a grnd...will that do it?
Audiofn one of the main problems I'm having is that I can't figure out which wires are grounds. I found what I thought was a ground block and tried wiring a new wire as ground so that I had one ground on the top of the switch and one ground on the bottom of the switch and that triped the breaker
so that's when I just temporarily wired it as I said above.I read that I need to have a jumper wire so that the mast light will also turn on when the NAV lights are on, so that's obviously what the blue wire was doing, but I think it was wired to the wrong terminals. It was going from the top rt term to the bottom rt term and the bottom rt term had what I think is a grnd wire on it, so it was jumping to a grnd, shouldn't the jumper be between the two power out terms?
How can I determine grnd for certain if I can't find a grnd block or trace the wires all the way to the end? Someone told me to put the test light on a known 12v source and then when it lights it should be a grnd...will that do it?
