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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 05/30/2011 :  19:27:31  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
If it ain't one thing, it's another. I ran my mast down to the deck step this afternoon to check that my new lights were working. Plugged in the deck connector, nothing, zip, nada. Great. Cleaned out the connectors and polished them up with a fiberglass cleaning tool, which made them look nice & shiney, even though they didn't look too bad to begin with. Plugged it back in, bupkus, no joy.

I pulled apart the connector, and lo & behold, three of the four connectors aren't. To anything. Only the deck light is still connected, which explains why if I pushed hard enough on the connector, sometimes it'd light up, when the ground touched it's connector. Grrrr.....

So, after experimentation we figured out which connector goes to which light, and verified that all of them work properly by connecting them with jumpers, here's what I have:
Black = ground
Green = deck (downward facing little bulb)
Red = mast head (anchor)
White = bow (forward facing LED)

Does anyone know who makes the deck connector? I think it's a Sea Dog, but I can't find it (yet). Ideally I'd like to find just the male connector and replace that, the deck side of the connector seems to be fine and it doesn't leak so I'd just as soon not remove it and put in an all new connector with the work that's involved there.

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I was hoping to get SL launched next weekend, and maybe I still can if I can find the connector locally. Actually I was hoping to launch last weekend, and then again this weekend, but I keep finding little things that grow into bigger problems.
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David
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 05/30/2011 :  19:44:59  Show Profile
http://www.catalinadirect.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=205

Someone else posted here about experimenting with a metal connector from another supplier. I don't like that idea because metal corrodes and shorts, and more importantly to me, the metal plug would be heavy and hard enough to damage the fiberglass if kept unplugged (which I tend to do to minimize water intrusion). IIRC, I think the guy abandoned it and went back to the OEM plastic one. (Search for the thread if you're interested.)
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 05/30/2011 :  22:23:42  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Thanks for the link, I've gone ahead and ordered it from CD, it looks like it's an exact match. Hopefully it get here before the end of the week, but even if it doesn't I can still launch the boat and get it to the marina during daylight hours. Then mend the connections afterward. I'd prefer not to do this, but I really-really-really want to get into the water after 18 months out.
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Tradewind
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Response Posted - 05/31/2011 :  04:25:02  Show Profile
I bought the connector from CD, it does seem to be a perfect match to the original, I'm assuming the PO never changed it. I tried a metal connector and it didn't fit on the deck but the CD connector works well, you probably won't have to change out the female deck end.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 05/31/2011 :  12:42:05  Show Profile
I order those connectors two at a time. They don't last long so it is good to have a spare.
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PCP777
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Response Posted - 05/31/2011 :  13:43:26  Show Profile
Please let me know how this goes as it's one of my next projects.
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