Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

To days projects, installed a lowrance hook2 5 splitshot, LED lights and a 2nd marine batterie and charger,
All went well but now stereo is not working and I have no idea what happened LOL,
So, tomorrow's project is to back track and find what I may have done, its going to bug me all night long, hopefully its something stupid

Been there,done that lol. When you figure it out you'll be amazed it happened. So many times I have to walk away from a project, collect my thoughts, and then it all makes sense again!!!

Your assuming I have common sense LOL

Problem Salved some way somehow the 12VDC SWITCHED wire (red) was not working, could not fond were so I just spliced in and ran new red wire, and now it works.

Nothing more frustrating then finishing a project and something doesn't work. I feel your pain.

I spent three hours yesterday helping my buddy install an amplified subwoofer on his boat (V-hull). After a few scraped knuckles and fiberglass fibers in the fingers, we got all the wiring run, the subwoofer mounted and we were really proud of ourselves. So we sat down, opened a couple of frosty cold adult beverages, and turned on the key to power everything up. DEAD! Yep, the entire boat was dead. We started scratching our heads and checking everything to try to figure out the problem. It only took us about 30 minutes to realize we had carefully hooked up every wire to the battery except for the MAIN Negative cable! Not sure how we missed the biggest cable, but we did. LOL.

Isn't that how it is, thinking your all done and proud of yourselves like you concerned it, BUT then it happens something’s wrong, at least it only took 30 minutes to realize the mistake and just one less adult beverages LOL