tdonoughue
Jetboaters Admiral
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- Location
- The Woodlands, TX 77381
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2012
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 24
Ok, looking for ideas, please:
Yesterday while out doing the sea trial of the trim tabs, the water was pretty choppy and I was playing with the tabs, bouncing around pretty well. Then the stereo head unit and the VHF radio rebooted at the same time. They did this several times on the voyage. I figured, as I had just been poking around the helm doing the install, there was probably a loose wire there somewhere. I might have used a crimp connector that I should just solder or something.
So today I emptied out the helm compartment and crawled my large butt in there to try to find the problem. I found that, when I install the head unit, I soldered the wires together. I soldered them to the old (stock) head unit power wires. Jiggled them--the stereo played on. Could not get it to cut out. The radio I have crimp connectors on and have it screwed to a bus block with the connector that goes to the GPS puck (I cut that set of wires to hook the VHF to the puck to get GPS signal on the VHF). I unhooked those--the wires were pretty short, but firmly crimped. I added some solder to one, but quarters were pretty tight and I was afraid of doing more damage to the other wires around... At any rate, I hooked those back up, jiggled more... could not get the VHF to go out again. Even if it was that connector, that is a different connector than the head unit--they are nowhere near each other. So I am thinking the issue is not there.
So I went to the back and found the fuses (oddly, I have never been in them before). When I opened the cap on each side, the 2nd spare fuse (10A, if memory serves) was loose in the box there. I replaced them, of course. But I pushed all of the fuses, tried to wiggle them--nothing went out. Jiggled the wires around the box... nothing.
What am I missing? Any ideas of the next thing to check? TIA!
Yesterday while out doing the sea trial of the trim tabs, the water was pretty choppy and I was playing with the tabs, bouncing around pretty well. Then the stereo head unit and the VHF radio rebooted at the same time. They did this several times on the voyage. I figured, as I had just been poking around the helm doing the install, there was probably a loose wire there somewhere. I might have used a crimp connector that I should just solder or something.
So today I emptied out the helm compartment and crawled my large butt in there to try to find the problem. I found that, when I install the head unit, I soldered the wires together. I soldered them to the old (stock) head unit power wires. Jiggled them--the stereo played on. Could not get it to cut out. The radio I have crimp connectors on and have it screwed to a bus block with the connector that goes to the GPS puck (I cut that set of wires to hook the VHF to the puck to get GPS signal on the VHF). I unhooked those--the wires were pretty short, but firmly crimped. I added some solder to one, but quarters were pretty tight and I was afraid of doing more damage to the other wires around... At any rate, I hooked those back up, jiggled more... could not get the VHF to go out again. Even if it was that connector, that is a different connector than the head unit--they are nowhere near each other. So I am thinking the issue is not there.
So I went to the back and found the fuses (oddly, I have never been in them before). When I opened the cap on each side, the 2nd spare fuse (10A, if memory serves) was loose in the box there. I replaced them, of course. But I pushed all of the fuses, tried to wiggle them--nothing went out. Jiggled the wires around the box... nothing.
What am I missing? Any ideas of the next thing to check? TIA!
