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TOPIC: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery
1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113107
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Hello,
Need help with a wire. I'll figure it out eventually, but maybe someone can save me some time. There is no battery yet. Just got this at auction. There are the two main battery cables and two smaller ones. I just replaced both terminals. I know one is for the lights but can't figure out the yellow wire. Sorry, I'm not the best mechanic/electrician. 
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113108
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Kevchoe,
WELCOME ABOARD. yours, satx |
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Re:1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113110
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Follow the yellow wire and see where it goes.
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113154
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Thx. I just thought someone would know off the top of their head.
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113158
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That would be impossible to tell unless you were the one that wired it, boats usually have no standard color coding and were frequently rewired anyway.
Taking a wild guess, I would suspect it is the hot for some accessory like lights, the little blacks ones are accessory ground, plus the hot and ground main cables, but who knows. |
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113160
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Just do as the A&P would tell me after they worked on one of the airplanes
Time to do the smoke test |
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CAVU
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113202
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I think you both just answered my question. Thx. The smoke test will be plan B thought.
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Re:1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113203
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Kevchoe, just be carefull with the smoke test. I have done a few and it is real hard to get the smoke back into the wires. lol frog
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Re: 1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113213
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To narrow down the guess work. Negative battery post are usually smaller than positive. ( the threaded post that the butterfly nuts go on). BUT NO NOT ALWAYS. Check to see how the wire ends fit the battery. This may answer your question.
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Re:1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113218
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At least your wire is automotive or marine wire...the idiot who owned our boat before us replaced parts of the original harness with Romex house wiring.
My guess is that the yellow is hot, but that's based on common sense. NEVER ASSume that the PO had common sense. |
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Frederic
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Re:1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113220
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And once in a while, you get a doozy. My West Bend Golden Shark outboard is POSITIVE GROUND. Although that is very much the exception rather than the rule. But luckily it still has the factory harness and the cables look like negative ground so people wouldn't hook them up wrong. But, since I knew it was positive ground, I had to double check everything just to make sure it was correct.
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Re:1963 Lonestar Deauville Battery 10 years 5 months ago #113318
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Thx
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