accessory panel ground

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Trying to find the common ground circut to the accessory panel on a 1985 chaparral 215xlc
 

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Re: accessory panel ground

Not all boats are built with - or + buss bars.
Why do you need a buss bar ? Interference of some kind ?
 

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Re: accessory panel ground

Trying to find the common ground circut to the accessory panel on a 1985 chaparral 215xlc

Ayuh,.... Welcome Aboard,... Find the 1 wire that's daisy chained to ALL the gauges,...

That's the Ground circuit...
 

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Re: accessory panel ground

Not all boats are built with - or + buss bars.
Why do you need a buss bar ? Interference of some kind ?

loosing 12v power to acc panel only. checked wiring at battery, that checked out. problem seems to be common to all circuts on the panel, removing fuse to each circut one at a time does not resolve the problem. sees it is a common ground loss some place
 

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Re: accessory panel ground

Ayuh,.... Welcome Aboard,... Find the 1 wire that's daisy chained to ALL the gauges,...

That's the Ground circuit...

problem is not in the dash gauges. it only affects the acc panel. grnd to dash is good. tracing wiring to acc panel i cannot find where the ground circut is to the acc panel
 

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tracing wiring to acc panel i cannot find where the ground circut is to the acc panel

Ayuh,... The panel only controls the (+) side...

The Ground runs from each accessory to the (-) side of the battery...
 

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Thanks for the help. Found the problem. It was a taped up fuse holder with a overheated fuse that was half melted. It was on a circut that was series with acc. panel. Fixed the draw on that circuit, everything works.
 
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