Official 1998 Sea Ray Sundancer 290 Thread

Here is pics for anybody having same issue. 2 fuses are behind the puprple wire. Also included board #
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Jeff Delbuono said:
Update on ac. Its fixed. YAY..... after doing 50 hours of research on line, testing all breakers and scrathing my head bald i finally opened up the control box. There is 2 - t50 fuses in the box that were blown. Here is what ya have to do. Remove panel in rear sleeping area (4 screws ) that will give you access to ac and control box. Turn off ac breaker. Remove box from wall. Open and replace 2 fuses. Mine looked fine but i guess after 22 years they did their job. $2 boat bucks. Not bad
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Great news! Congrats, and thanks for letting us know how to resolve it.
 
Speaking of fuses...I was having an issue with one of my two port/house batteries, which also turned out to be fuse-related. The inline fuse holder was corroded inside, so even though the fuse looked fine, one of the two paralleled batteries wasn't being charged by my AC converter. After originally checking out the fuse, and figuring it was ok, I thought it was the negative cable connection, which was very loose. Then when the battery was still dying on me, I thought maybe something was draining that one battery...but the one it's connected to wasn't getting low, which didn't make sense. That's when I decide to actually check the voltage from the AC converter to the battery in question, which turned out to be 0 volts. I obviously should have checked that originally, instead of just looking at the fuse (duh). Anyway, I replaced the inline fuse holder & fuse yesterday, and got 15.5V from the AC converter. Reconnected everything and hoping I should be good to go now.
 
Question to the 98 290 group. While working on my ac unit i thought of a good idea. I have a ac vent in the back bedroom. I do not use this area for sleeping but mainly use it for storage of stuff like grill, pads and such. Has any done or seen done re routing this vent to the cockpit area. Like somewhere by the captains helm? Would be nice to have ac in the outside area especially since i have a full camper top. Is this a good idea. Think if i drill a 3 inch hole and add a vent somewhere. i can either t off that line or eliminate it completely from that room. Any thoughts
 
Jeff Delbuono said:
Question to the 98 290 group. While working on my ac unit i thought of a good idea. I have a ac vent in the back bedroom. I do not use this area for sleeping but mainly use it for storage of stuff like grill, pads and such. Has any done or seen done re routing this vent to the cockpit area. Like somewhere by the captains helm? Would be nice to have ac in the outside area especially since i have a full camper top. Is this a good idea. Think if i drill a 3 inch hole and add a vent somewhere. i can either t off that line or eliminate it completely from that room. Any thoughts
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A few words of caution:
  • Yes you could move the outlet to the cockpit. But the amount of air from one grille will only provide a small amount of cooling capacity. With the amount of isinglass and glass, the grille would provide some relief but likely not enough to make a large real world difference. Just know that you will spend quite a bit effort for not much effect. And you would be taking away capacity from the cabin, unless you find some manual damper system to direct the air to either the back bedroom or the cockpit.
  • Covering the grille in the back bedroom may make your AC unit perform worse. If you blank off that one grille, not all of that air will go to the other grilles; the result will be less overall airflow across the coil in the AC unit. This will make it short cycle more often (shortens the life of the unit). The back bedroom is open to the cabin and the cooling of the cabin is the result of all the grilles working in tandem, so I would not suggest blanking it off. It would be different if the door was normally closed and very tight.
 
Great. Thanks for the imput. I do leave the back room vent open. Never thought about the the effort vs effect.
 
You bet! That's why you were smart to put the question out there. Everyone on the forum brings expertise in something, and its always useful to spitball an idea. Keep on boating, Jeff!
 
Who has replaced the brittle foam/rubber at the bottom of the windshield that covers the screws?? also how about switch panels?
 
cobras281 said:
Who has replaced the brittle foam/rubber at the bottom of the windshield that covers the screws?? also how about switch panels?
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I did all of that on our old boat, there is a taylormade part number that replaces the foam on the windshield and I did the switch panels from FP marine including all the switches. Made a huge difference in the look. If you go back in this thread a couple years you should find the taylormade part number
 
Little Ducky said:
Yes please check to make sure everything is flowing into and out of the box properly.

The box should have a lid on top...... if it's full of water (and there's water outside the box as well) your bilge pump inside the box has malfunctioned/clogged. It gets pretty nasty so from time to time it's good to give the box a good cleaning.

It should look similar to this. The little mesh screen you see catches hair and other debris that might go down the shower drain and once this is clogged the flow can be reduced. Plus the float switch and bilge pump could be slimed up. I use some Spray 9 and a rag once in a while and give the box a good cleaning..... the screen can be removed and use a hose to spray all the crap off of it.

If you have Air Conditioning the condensate also drains into this little sump.

To be on the safe side I would wear some rubber gloves when cleaning out this box.
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I cleaned out my sump box and didn't realize the screen was missing, until I saw your post, so thanks for including the pic. Do you know if there's a replacement screen available somewhere?
 
Good luck finding it. I just did a search and didnt find anything. Believe its a rule or attwood sub box. Ya can buy entire box for about $100 boat bucks. I would just make one.
 
Jeff Delbuono said:
Yeah. I also check before every run. Gonna stick with the 4 piece. Bringing to a local guy and having him use as a template. My old carpet backing just denigrated. Gonna do like others said and spray a rubber backing on it to save as a spair
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That rubber backing is nasty. When I pull my carpets up, there’s black rubber stuck on the deck that seems to get worse each time. I’m having Sea Deck made now, so I have to get all that black crap off the deck first. I just bought a portable pressure washer for starters. Any other suggestions for getting that stuff off, and prepping the deck?
 
Jeff Delbuono said:
Good luck finding it. I just did a search and didnt find anything. Believe its a rule or attwood sub box. Ya can buy entire box for about $100 boat bucks. I would just make one.
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Ok thanks for looking. I also had no luck. We just got the bought in June, so I’m not sure how long it’s been missing. Probably years. Maybe I’ll make something up, like you said.
 
Shark, my carpets were the same way. I took them out. Brushed all loose stuff off, taped edge and used flex seal. You can roll or painbrush it. Worked awesome. 1 gal did all my carpets. $100 at home depot. Can use acetone to clean stuck black stuff up
 
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