Bilge Pump Power Issues

[Tlynch99]

I've got a strange bilge pump related question. I've got a 1992 330 Sundancer. I have two bilge pumps one at the very bottom of the bilge right near the transom and then another about a foot forward, still mounted to the hull but it's a few inches higher. I believe this to be the stock configuration (bilge pump and high water pump). Both have float switches. Neither work, and I don't have 12V connected to any of the wires connected to the float switches, which seems odd. The battery switches are on, and the bilge pump breaker in the battery area is not popped. I also checked the terminals on the bilge pump switch, mounted on the dash, to ground, and do not have 12 volts anywhere there either.

Any ideas on what to look at next?

I'm about to take the breaker box apart and see if I have 12V on one side of the breaker.

 

[JimG]

Yep, that's about all you can do, keep tracing it back till you find the 12V.

 

[mquiet]

Keep following the line. It sounds like butt conn torso that are exposed and contaminated. I am surprised by how many I find inline.

 

[JVM225]

Keep following the line. It sounds like butt conn torso that are exposed and contaminated. I am surprised by how many I find inline.

Amen to that!