Did you upgrade your blowers to the continuous duty squirrel cage ones? If you did those breakers need to upsize from 6 amps to 10 amps.
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Did you upgrade your blowers to the continuous duty squirrel cage ones? If you did those breakers need to upsize from 6 amps to 10 amps.
Many units are available on Ebay cheap. Search Seafire, Sea-fire, & Xintex.
I'm betting on the override switch as it is a moving part without protection from water.
Thanks!!!To finish this up, after running the diagnostics, I determined I had a bad remote display unit. I purchased and installed a new one an everything works as intended. It was pretty easy, needing to connect just 3 wires.
My only gripe (very minor) is the remote is grey instead of black and the LED's are very bright. There is a button to dim them, but you cannot set it to Hi/Med/Low and have it retained to that setting.
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Hey Dan B, Another Carver guy enjoying the value of CSR! Welcome. Have you found that the Carver owners forum is pretty pale in terms of activity as I have? I have posted several questions on the site about 506 specific topics and basically all I heard were crickets.Wow guys, this thread has been a great help... I am dealing with probably the exact system but with a 440 Carver aft cabin. Mine is 1995, and it just randomly decides to buzz. It might be that the bottle is marginally empty. So far that has not caused a shut down of the engines, so who knows, but since we are planning to start the loop this fall I have a deadline to fix it. The good news is, since reading this thread I now at least have knowledge of how the thing works, sort of...
By the way, David, please let us know how it turned out! Did you figure out why the red LED was on?
I think mine (red) sort of blinks randomly? and then after a few minutes just comes on solid. We just unwinterized a couple days ago, so have not had much time to look at it yet, over the winter we replaced our water tank in the forward bilge and just now wrapping THAT up.
Thanks again!
Thanks for the welcome! I am not sure I signed up for the Carver Owners Forum yet to tell the truth... might have some time back, we had a contract on a Nashville 440 in late 2019 that fell through when it failed my survey. Think I signed up when I thought we had bought that boat... but have not been back to the forum since...Hey Dan B, Another Carver guy enjoying the value of CSR! Welcome. Have you found that the Carver owners forum is pretty pale in terms of activity as I have? I have posted several questions on the site about 506 specific topics and basically all I heard were crickets.
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Very good thought... this boat is a fresh water boat, and the connections looked pretty good that I have checked so far. Have not seen any really obvious corrosion yet... obviously something went south though, a bad connection would explain the flicker of the red LED I get. As in, it getting a signal that the extinguisher has popped and turns red here and there (because the voltage is dropping down intermittently.) I am sure that circuit is fail safe... I am thinking I could just crack the screws on the control board and wiggle the wires a bit to clean the connections. Prolly should before buying a new remote unit... although, like I said, it looks like it has seen better days!With a suspect low voltage component, it may be helpful to remove it, (note the parts numbers), thoroughly clean it and its terminals up and put it back. Take a good look at those crimped on terminals. Could be you could flow rosin core solder in although it would be better to put new terminals on cut and freshly stripped wire as it will oxidize inside the crimp. Once I had an outboard harness in which some of the wires had turned into green dust. Diodes generally do not fail unless severely abused. Heat shrink tubing over the shank of the terminal and the wire's insulation will also serve as strain relief.