FulmarJeddo
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Following on from my thread where I was having trouble transmitting due to low battery charge, I have been doing some more investigations. Whilst my domestic batteries are currently under charged (I have disconnected the VSR that was putting a permanent load on the batteries), I did some checks with my voltmeter. When I transmit I see a volt drop of about 1 volt at the batteries. At the radio the voltage drops by about 2 volts and I get a low power warning on the display. It looks as though I need to replace the power cable. However, I can't find where it is connected at the battery/power unit end.
Are there any Fulmar owners out there that have had to do replace their's?
The power to the radio goes off when the isolator switches are turned off, but I can't find a fuse or breaker that feeds the radio. If I switch all the switches off on the power panel the radio remains live and there doesn't appear to be a breaker on the panel specifically for the radio. I can't trace the cable as it disappears into the paneling in the small locker in front of the chart table.
I wondered about shorting it out to see if anything tripped, but decided against that in case it was fed through a fuse and I couldn't locate it. I may end up just running a new cable via an inline fuse.
My Fulmar is one of the last 32s built in 1991 and has a different power board to the earlier boats.
Are there any Fulmar owners out there that have had to do replace their's?
The power to the radio goes off when the isolator switches are turned off, but I can't find a fuse or breaker that feeds the radio. If I switch all the switches off on the power panel the radio remains live and there doesn't appear to be a breaker on the panel specifically for the radio. I can't trace the cable as it disappears into the paneling in the small locker in front of the chart table.
I wondered about shorting it out to see if anything tripped, but decided against that in case it was fed through a fuse and I couldn't locate it. I may end up just running a new cable via an inline fuse.
My Fulmar is one of the last 32s built in 1991 and has a different power board to the earlier boats.