Bad service at Morgan Marina

[Capt. Debbie]

People shit things up as "good enough". If you have a battery selector switch there should be one battery with both pos and negatives for motor cranking ( and maybe bilge pumps). The other battery should have only a single neg and pos.

One battery is CRANKING- nothing but the engine starter(s). And the HOUSE battery is all else.

While running the SELECTOR SWITCH is on ALL to charge both. When stopped SELECTOR SWITCH to HOUSE battery only.


The idea is motor runs on one (CRANKING BATTERY) and other battery the(HOUSE BATTERY) runs on. So while fishing the cranking battery is not drained. And the cranking battery carries the house electrical stuff.

Originally Posted by jasm1n8

It turned out that’s not it😳 Two more ground wires were not connected on the for the two other batteries on the port side!Just found out this yesterday after spending $$ have a mechanics coming to check because all the instruments were completed dead including horn.
I am going to call Morgan today to complain and maybe ask for refund of batteries installation they charged me for!

[courbeco]

Good, sound advise Frank!

Originally Posted by Capt. Frank

People shit things up as "good enough". If you have a battery selector switch there should be one battery with both pos and negatives for motor cranking ( and maybe bilge pumps). The other battery should have only a single neg and pos.

One battery is CRANKING- nothing but the engine starter(s). And the HOUSE battery is all else.

While running the SELECTOR SWITCH is on ALL to charge both. When stopped SELECTOR SWITCH to HOUSE battery only.


The idea is motor runs on one (CRANKING BATTERY) and other battery the(HOUSE BATTERY) runs on. So while fishing the cranking battery is not drained. And the cranking battery carries the house electrical stuff.