miss- wired Vetus bow thruster help please.

[Astralis]

So having sorted my Sidepower bow thruster with a general motor overhaul and refirb a friend asked me to help him do the same with his Vetus 80, no problem, motor removed, fresh overhaul and he decided to fit it back in. Again no problem as we had marked up all the wires or so I thought! I get a call and it’s working great but port when starboard is pressed and vice versa. I said did you swap the control wires over and he then told me that he had disconnected the solenoid low power wires from the 4 spade terminals and switched them over top to bottom and now nothing works! Not the wires I was talking about! So I have been and had a look and the control box is clicking and the solenoids and motor runs in both directions when jump wired from the main negative to the top spade connectors. We put the wires back where they should be. When the control box and loom is disconnected it still runs using this method.
So any ideas what he has damaged by swapping the wires over?

So just as I have mine back to A1 order I am now stuck with my head in his forward bilge trying to fathom out his issue!

Any advice always appreciated, cheers.

 

[Plum]

So having sorted my Sidepower bow thruster with a general motor overhaul and refirb a friend asked me to help him do the same with his Vetus 80, no problem, motor removed, fresh overhaul and he decided to fit it back in. Again no problem as we had marked up all the wires or so I thought! I get a call and it’s working great but port when starboard is pressed and vice versa. I said did you swap the control wires over and he then told me that he had disconnected the solenoid low power wires from the 4 spade terminals and switched them over top to bottom and now nothing works! Not the wires I was talking about! So I have been and had a look and the control box is clicking and the solenoids and motor runs in both directions when jump wired from the main negative to the top spade connectors. We put the wires back where they should be. When the control box and loom is disconnected it still runs using this method.
So any ideas what he has damaged by swapping the wires over?

So just as I have mine back to A1 order I am now stuck with my head in his forward bilge trying to fathom out his issue!

Any advice always appreciated, cheers.

If you look in the Vetus installation manual it shows which wires to swap to change direction and the full wiring diagram to check all your connections are correct. Also, on mine there is a 5A fuse for the control wires in the relay box so if hot-wiring works but the control switch at the helm does not then maybe a blown fuse.

 

[Astralis]

If you look in the Vetus installation manual it shows which wires to swap to change direction and the full wiring diagram to check all your connections are correct. Also, on mine there is a 5A fuse for the control wires in the relay box.

Unfortunately he hasn’t got a manual so we have found one online so we know which wires to swap over and have done that but when he did the wrong swap he caused some issue that has stopped it working, interesting you have a 5amp fuse, I can’t see one on his and his relay is a Sidepower one and not sure there is a fuse in there because I think they are a sealed unit.

 

[Plum]

Unfortunately he hasn’t got a manual so we have found one online so we know which wires to swap over and have done that but when he did the wrong swap he caused some issue that has stopped it working, interesting you have a 5amp fuse, I can’t see one on his and his relay is a Sidepower one and not sure there is a fuse in there because I think they are a sealed unit.

If he has a Sidepower relay on the side of a vetus bowthruster motor then then that does complicate matters when fault finding

 

[Astralis]

If he has a Sidepower relay on the side of a vetus bowthruster motor then then that does complicate matters when fault finding

Yes he does have the Sidepower relay

 

[Astralis]

Yes he does have the Sidepower relay

Forgot to mention that he hasn’t bow and stern thrusters and at the helm controls he is getting the on light and the stern thruster is working fine but no response from the bow thruster using the helm control.