If water gets into the bilge and trips the float, the horn and lamp alerts me.Ī previous boat was used for scuba diving in the keys. I have a bright panel lamp and a bicycle horn style alert wired from that wire to ground. Now here's a tip from an electronics nerd: The helm switch wire which goes to the pump gets 12V applied when EITHER the switch or the float is activated. The helm switch is there for overriding the float. The other end of the float goes to an UN-Interruptible source, with a 10 amp fuse in line within 7" from the source.
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One to the float and one to the helm for a manual switch. The pump negative is directly wired to a good ground near it. That switch is a device designed to sink boats. My business partners boat sunk in a rainstorm at his dock on Cape Cod because of one of those ^**&% "On-Off-Auto switches. This is coming from a 50 year boater, who is a retired engineer, and past Coast Guard Auxiliary patrol commander. Do I need to be concerned about that? How should I seal them up? Can I dry them out with a heat gun or something then use some 5200? Or should I maybe drill them out a bit with a larger drill bit to remove any potentially water soaked material? Question 3: As far as I can tell, there was no caulking of any sort used in the old screw holes, so there has almost certainly been water seepage into them over time. Question 2: If I don't use the raised pedestals, obviously i need to be careful drilling new pilot holes for the screws. and I always found it annoying that it left so much water in the bilge due to being raised up. My new pump is slightly larger, so doesn't fully fit on that raised area anyway. or can I just put the pump directly onto the bottom.
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Question 1: Do I HAVE to use these raised pedestals. Old pump and float switch were screwed onto 2 raised pedestals, just off the keel line, float switch one a little higer than the pump one. existing was all corroded anyway.ģ more questions. so I wired in a new holder with the recommended 15a fuse in it. the existing float switch was already wired into the MBSS. So I got the new pump & switch wired in yesterday, was dead simple. In other words, when the float switch is NOT powering the main bilge pump, the helm switch is able to.Īuto bilge pump switch NO 4.jpg You can think of your ON/OFF helm switch as an "Over-Ride" to that of your float switch circuit! This will avoid a direct battery connection. Terminal #2 will be a direct route to your HLBB (house load batt bank).
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Take your Float Switch power from the rear of your MBSS terminal #2. We want the main bilge pump "float switch" to have "Un-Interruptible" power when we leave our boats unattended. whether we leave the 3-way switch in Auto Mode or not, it would be left with no power to supply the float switch with! The hull harness is NOT powered when we leave the boats unattended (i.e., MBSS turned OFF). Return the 3 position switch, it will only provide a means of accidently leaving your bilge pump(s) inoperable when you need them inch:Īnd rather than returning it, please smash it and toss it into the recycle bin so that no one else gets hold of it.Ī 3 position helm switch is typically powered by the hull harness. Please do us a favor by clicking on, then spending a minute visiting our advertisers. Thanks for visiting the Bayliner Owners Club!! If you join, you can choose to either contribute and not see any advertising, or you can choose not to contribute, and you will see the same advertising you are seeing right now. This funding comes from member donations, or through your clicking on advertisements. The Bayliner Owners Club and its Decades of stored boating information is funded by you, the people that visit here. No matter what size or model of Bayliner Boat that you have or are contemplating, we have members here who have that same model and would enjoy discussing it in a friendly, welcoming environment. The Bayliner Owners Club is a gathering place for Bayliner Owners and prospective owners.PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT THE BOC (and remove advertising).