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Greetings it's been awhile. Re doing my cabin deck. Teak and plywood stripped off. Temp roof on. Notice the other day during the rain that water seems to roll down the deck and tends to run off the cabin on the port side. Has anyone else noticed this.

Thanks Jim

Do you have the specs for the hardtop?

Well mystery solved. I disconnected all positive battery terminals. Reached up and hit the switch. Dc lights turned on. As a last ditch effort I turned solar panel controller off. Lights out. Power off. It seems the the controller is tapped into the dc lighting via a terminal board in the cockpit. T...

Quite frankly - depends on how a previous owner wired / rewired things. If a PO has wired things directly to the battery terminals (or any power block that is still live even if switch is turned off, like bilge pump connections usually are), that could lead to this. No easy way around it - check an...

Is there an "Off" position? We can only see batt 1, batt, 2, and both batteries in parallel. As pictured, yes you can have DC lighting because we cannot see an "off" position. With the being said, and having no familiarity with your particular vessel, the location of this switch...

Should I have dc lighting with the switches off?
Does not matter what position switches are in. I can turn on dc lighting?

Hi Christan. Welcome to the tri world. I'm the new owner of a 1974. Stay in touch. The people on this forum are GREAT!!!

[quote="Sanctuary 2" What size battery do you have on your genset? The boat is new to me too, but I have a group 27 that is destined for that spot.[/quote] Yahoo got genset running on starter fluid via a grp 31 battery. I'm going to separate the wires above and dedicate one battery to the...

Yes I agree. I plan on replacing and goin with reg neg and pos cables.
What size battery do you have on your genset?
Is it just there to start the genset?

The hose is lea dinging to fwt I think. I will follow that out too.

This is a pic of genny wiring. Looks like a lot of add on stuff. The battery charger does supply power here.

I'm open to suggestion.

Thanks for the info on v- drives. I did come across the cockpit drain on port side after some ice melt did is job and I got wet going by. Lol. I'm in the process of getting dirty and hand over handing each system. I think I have saved 3 batteries. I will use one on each engine. One on the genny. Wil...

Update on power. Turned out had a polarity problem on a extension cord I repaired. Now fixed and have power. Battery charger works. Warm weather has deck drains working. Batteries have been pulled to see which ones are salvageable. Any ideas on my next move?

my 1976 f32 had the same set up.......... sort of. as did the tri cabin i grew up with. the constant red light is indeed POLARITY REVERSED. Thanks for confirming that Aaron , I was pretty sure but not 100% . I like the ones I made green and red Thanks for the feedback. I'll check that and get back ...

prowlersfish wrote:If it was my birthday I would not post it . D.S.T. = more boat time

What's DST?

Re: 74 tri cabin shore power Post by prowlersfish » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:52 am Could be reversed polarity at the source or the pig tail ? Good idea the pigtail jack seemed loose. Any ideas what red lights indicate? Does anyone know if the box is enclosed? I'm getting a lot of moisture from window ab...