navigation light diagram

[satman93637]

I have a 1968 seaflight. The navigation lights do not work and i want to rewire it but alot of the wires have been cut. Need to know the proper way to wire it from scratch. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[JB]

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Electric topic

 

[llfish]

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Several ways to do this. One way is to run all new wires. The other is to splice the wires to gather. <br /><br />Can you identify the color of the hot wires that went to the lights?<br /><br />Running all new wires is the best. Black will be ground. Pick up some new wire that will match the old wires that you were able to Id. Buy some different colored wires if you were unable to identify the old ones.<br /><br />Run the black wire from the light to your ground. The hot wires will run from light to the appropriate switches. Make sure that there is a fuse in the line.<br /><br />Some boats have one large hot wire going to a fuse block and then to the switch. Others run the hot wire to the battery. On my boat the hot lead goes to a hot terminal on a group of pre-wired toggle switches which are fused. In ether case there should be a fuse no more than 7 inches from the battery. The size will depend on how many amps you will be drawing.<br /><br />Hope this helps and good luck.

 

[satman93637]

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Well that sounds easy enough. At the risk of sounding like a total idiot. What is a good ground on a boat? The negative post on the battery?

 

[Dunaruna]

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Yes, the neg post of the battery is the best grounding point. You can run a heavy cable up to the cockpit and connect into a buss bar, then just jump any earth connections of that.<br /><br />

<br /><br />Aldo

 

[jtexas]

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Welcome to the forum, Satman, here's something I've learned that might come in handy: <br /><br />"Ground" in the USA = "Earth" most everywhere else on it.

 

[Dunaruna]

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I've been hanging around here too long, I'm starting to talk American <br /><br />Aldo

 

[Scuda11]

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[Realgun]

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Actually the new colors are Grey and yellow. <br />Yellow is ground and grey is for Nav lights.<br />In a bulb it does not matter which lead is + or -.<br />Just make sure you + is from a Fuse positive side of the battery and the - is to the negative side.

 

[Realgun]

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The yellow is being phased in so that people do not use the A/C hot as a negative ground! OUCH!