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    New car trailer light issue

    Short and sweet: When the car is off and the hazard/headlights are on on the car, the trailer lights don't light up. Everything else works when the car is off, brake/blinker/etc...and when the car is on, everything works 100%, including lights and hazards. I had the same car 2002 version and...
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    wiring in a blue sea and acr switch

    I've got a set of batteries in parallel and a starter battery. I have a 2 bank charger but soon will be upgrading to a 3 bank 15 amp charger. I don't want to wire it up and then have to redo everything so I'd like to set it up for the 3 bank charger. Not sure if this even makes a difference. How...
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    drunk guy went to get the truck

    Guy backed what turned out to be his friend's truck down to the dock. Dude had been drinking. Snagged the corner of his friend's newer truck on the dock and ripped the corner of the bumper half way off. I was waving trying to stop him, and he looked right at me, but didn't stop. Then he got out...
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    Problems with my fish finder and my batteries.

    Here’s the whole story…I took my boat out a couple of weeks ago with all of my equipment (FF, DR, TM) hooked up to the battery that came with the boat. I had charged the battery overnight before going out on a 5 amp per bank charger. I went out and everything was fine. All of the stuff was...
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    parallel battery distance??

    Thanks! I have a question that I didn't see an answer to. If running 2 batteries parallel, does it matter how far away from each other they are? I want one battery on each side of the back of my boat, but running parallel. I have some SUPER heavy wire I can use. Will this be ok? Or do they have...
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    Never started a non-tiller motor. First time going out. Most important question...

    I've had my trusty 12ft boat with 9.8 4 stroke tiller for a while and it's cake...but how do I start this motor? haha, yeah, rookie question and I have asked other people. I've gotten different answers. My buddy said don't use the choke and another said do use it. One said just pump the bulb and...
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    Little Auto Mechanic experience...

    So I go over to get some new tires at Wheel Works across town and he asks me if I wanted the free inspection. I said no, just tires please. He says, it might take about 2 hours. I said to get knew tires? He says, "yep". So I walk over to my barber and get a haircut, then head over to the...
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    HorseNeck Clam Help!

    So I got some nice good sized horseneck clams the other day. I was told to soak them in ice water to get sand out (not sure why since I cut them up and wash them alive anyways). I get them out to clean them and only one has a brownish neck. The others are a whitish light tan color. This is my...
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    Best way to raise where your motor is mounted?

    How would you extend this up? I need to raise my motor two inches and it's 2 inches from the top now.
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    Fish finder images...

    Few questions. is that line my boat motor getting in the way of my transducer? I got to an area what had a lot of this.
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    Where do you dispose of old gasoline?

    Haven't taken my boat out in a LONG time and my gas in the can is about 5 months old. Where can I take it? Only about 3 gallons. I know Kregan type places sometimes take old oil, but what about gasoline?
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    anyone see anything wrong with this location?

    a little tiny corner hands over the edge of the boat. should i drill another hole and raise it a quarter inch? also will it make that much of a difference that it's 2 feet of center of the boat when it comes to side imaging? thanks (yes, I am redoing the carpet on the trailer rails this week :) )
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    Anyone see any problems with this wiring?

    Wiring up a trolling motor and new fish finder. Pretty expensive stuff and I don't want to mess it up. See anything wrong with this diagram? Anything I'm missing? The reason I'm using the terminal strips is because the connectors on the trolling motor are too small for the posts on the batter...
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    What's the difference between spade and egc fuses?

    The guy at West Marine said it doesn't matter for my fish finder, but I read a couple of threads that suggested spade fuses. What's the difference and which ones should I be using for my humminbird 898c hd si combo? the manual doesn't say, it just says 3a fuse.
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    Installing external GPS questions

    Got a humminbird fish finder and was wondering how to install the GPS. I know hot to hook up all of the wiring etc...but what's the best way to install it. It comes in two parts, a top half, which looks like it can be installed right to some wood, and a bottom half that looks like it screws onto...
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