So I've been getting some work done. It's not coming out as neat as I was hoping, but what I want to get done is about there. I found out my belt was too loose on my alternator, so I think that is why it was working when I first started the motor, but gradually "died" as the belt got hot. However, the casing for the alternator still feels like it gets hot, I still do not know if that is normal or not. Other than that, things are going. However, I have an issue with my fish finder. Below is what I posted on a fishing forum site about that...
I've been doing some re-wiring on my boat. In the process, I saw that some NEMA wires were connected to my fish finder, the Furuno 667, but from devices that are no longer on the boat, so I removed that wire. I took the boat out for a test run yesterday, and turned on my fish finder, but it would not read bottom. My first question is, does there need to be anything plugged into the NEMA connecter? The transducer is an Airmar thru-hull. I do not know the exact model. Also, the temp was reading 99.9 which is wrong as well. Is it possible that the transducer went bad for sitting for a while? It has been about 8-10 months since the fish finder has been turned on. The boat is kept in a bottom liner in the water, so excess growth shouldn't be the culprit. I'm just wanting to make sure I didn't do something wrong.
Thanks