Venkman
Jetboaters Lieutenant
- Messages
- 67
- Reaction score
- 31
- Points
- 152
- Location
- Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2011
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 21
In May I installed a new on board battery charger. It is a Promariner 8, charges perfectly ( I did have a problem with it not charging a battery but that issue resolved itself), the charger is connected to two batteries, a starting battery and a "house" battery for the amps. I have two amps for my stereo, that are each wired through a power block and a ground block with 8 gauge wire and them from the blocks to the house battery with 4 gauge wire. The only way the amps are connected in any way to the boat/starting battery is via the pre outs and amp on wire ( I really don't know what that wire is called, but the one that goes from the stereo to the amps to tell them to wake up and start receiving signal.) and the house battery is grounded to the starting battery ( I do not know if this is required, but I have always done this to ensure there is not a grounding issue with the stereo). I know this is a lot of back story and set up, but from my experience these are all questions/considerations people are going to have.
When I plug in the battery charger the amps turn on and stay on. It does not matter if the radio is on or not, I have the boat systems isolated via a battery switch and I have even used a voltage meter to confirm the radio has no power running to it when the switch is turned off. I cannot figure out how this can be happening, Everything worked perfectly for years with no problems, the only difference between the last three years and today is a on board battery charger.
So I have isolated every system in the boat and I have came to the conclusion that either the boat is haunted or the battery charger is somehow sending somekind of signal through the radio to the amps telling them to turn on. I can not see how the amps could be getting a turn on signal any other way via the batteries, and if I pull the amp turn on wire, they do go off. I am just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this issue and maybe I am missing something very simple. Right now to keep my amps from being eternally on, I have pulled the fuses.
When I plug in the battery charger the amps turn on and stay on. It does not matter if the radio is on or not, I have the boat systems isolated via a battery switch and I have even used a voltage meter to confirm the radio has no power running to it when the switch is turned off. I cannot figure out how this can be happening, Everything worked perfectly for years with no problems, the only difference between the last three years and today is a on board battery charger.
So I have isolated every system in the boat and I have came to the conclusion that either the boat is haunted or the battery charger is somehow sending somekind of signal through the radio to the amps telling them to turn on. I can not see how the amps could be getting a turn on signal any other way via the batteries, and if I pull the amp turn on wire, they do go off. I am just wondering if anyone else has any experience with this issue and maybe I am missing something very simple. Right now to keep my amps from being eternally on, I have pulled the fuses.