QBhoy
Well-Known Member
The common electric issues on these 218’s and many like them, in my experience isn’t really to do with the engine brand, drive or anything like it. Not to do with the sealine installed wiring. If anything, the wiring and installation is top class originally. Very few boats this size will have such quality in their make up I’d think.
just perhaps that they have a complex installation and 30 years at least gone by and usually in a salt water environment.
These wee things have a lovely set up with their reset push button breakers and split charge system. Just the earthing continuity that seemed to affect things, on mine and a friends 220. Easily sorted if caught in time. The company that supplied the bulk of the electrical items in these still exist last I heard. As in the split charge and switch panels. They are a comoant down south. Name escapes me currently but something like KD power or KD electrics or similar.
Not related, but another wee thing I did with mine was to change out the festoon bulbs in the cabin dome lights for LED equivalents. Each of the 3 dome lights have 2 10w bulbs in them from factory. Leave them on for more than an hour or so and your leisure battery is short lived. Warm white LED bulbs make the world of difference.
Oh and don’t bother using the moulded in outboard bracket for anything other than storing a small outboard for the tender. Waste of time if the idea was ever for an auxiliary engine propulsion. Haha.
just perhaps that they have a complex installation and 30 years at least gone by and usually in a salt water environment.
These wee things have a lovely set up with their reset push button breakers and split charge system. Just the earthing continuity that seemed to affect things, on mine and a friends 220. Easily sorted if caught in time. The company that supplied the bulk of the electrical items in these still exist last I heard. As in the split charge and switch panels. They are a comoant down south. Name escapes me currently but something like KD power or KD electrics or similar.
Not related, but another wee thing I did with mine was to change out the festoon bulbs in the cabin dome lights for LED equivalents. Each of the 3 dome lights have 2 10w bulbs in them from factory. Leave them on for more than an hour or so and your leisure battery is short lived. Warm white LED bulbs make the world of difference.
Oh and don’t bother using the moulded in outboard bracket for anything other than storing a small outboard for the tender. Waste of time if the idea was ever for an auxiliary engine propulsion. Haha.
