bridaus
Senior Member
Not at the boat, so trying to debrief myself on what I discovered yesterday, undoing PO electrical wiring... and figure out what's going on. All opinions/thoughts welcome.
Background: Some battery somewhere is dragging down my house bank. I haven't ruled out one of the house batteries themselves. Found that even when I switched all battery switches off, still happened. Found that one of my house batteries consistently measured the same voltage as my bow thruster battery. Hmm. Then found a positive DC wire hooked to one of the two house batteries that when disconnected still had voltage. Hmm. Traced it back to one of two "posts" in the electrical cabinet in all KK42's. I can tell from the voltage that the bow thruster battery is supplying voltage to this post and therefore this line.
Questions
1. Is there any reason a bow thruster would be permanently wired to one of two house batteries? I say no, combiner only.
2. Does anyone with KK experience know what the INTENT of the two DC posts in the electrical closet mounted on the right wall towards the bottom are? Are they meant to be house, engine, bow thruster, or what? Or does no one else have them? In my opinion they should have house voltage only when house battery switch is on.
3. Bow thruster should only be hooked to a combiner and that's it in my opinion. Thoughts on that?
Extra credit: Any KK42 owners I would love if you could post pics of the inside of your electrical panel if easier than writing words to explain what you have... I would appreciate anything...
Just doing a lot of thinking while working on other things.... this will be a common theme with me, appreciate the read/help.
Background: Some battery somewhere is dragging down my house bank. I haven't ruled out one of the house batteries themselves. Found that even when I switched all battery switches off, still happened. Found that one of my house batteries consistently measured the same voltage as my bow thruster battery. Hmm. Then found a positive DC wire hooked to one of the two house batteries that when disconnected still had voltage. Hmm. Traced it back to one of two "posts" in the electrical cabinet in all KK42's. I can tell from the voltage that the bow thruster battery is supplying voltage to this post and therefore this line.
Questions
1. Is there any reason a bow thruster would be permanently wired to one of two house batteries? I say no, combiner only.
2. Does anyone with KK experience know what the INTENT of the two DC posts in the electrical closet mounted on the right wall towards the bottom are? Are they meant to be house, engine, bow thruster, or what? Or does no one else have them? In my opinion they should have house voltage only when house battery switch is on.
3. Bow thruster should only be hooked to a combiner and that's it in my opinion. Thoughts on that?
Extra credit: Any KK42 owners I would love if you could post pics of the inside of your electrical panel if easier than writing words to explain what you have... I would appreciate anything...
Just doing a lot of thinking while working on other things.... this will be a common theme with me, appreciate the read/help.