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Adding a deck light with my steaming light

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RADIOGUY
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Initially Posted - 04/25/2006 : 22:38:33

Im upgrading my anchor light and steaming lights on my 1979. Problem (of course) is the deck plug is a four pin with three wires going to it. I need two switched hot wires for the steaming/deck light combo. I saw another past listing where the answer seems to be do not bother. Are the wires run back to the breaker panel just below the deck or can you access them by removing the headliner(does not look like fun) any suggestions? Thanks

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 00:07:11

The stock 1979 C-25 12V wiring for the port side of the boat (including cabin lights, mast lights, and fwd nav lights) is very permanently molded in between the deck and headliner. When I rewired my mast, I ran a new 5-cond cable from inside the head compartment near the compression post, along the top of the bulkhead, behind the settee back inside the hull liner back to the elec. panel. For a deck connector, I used a 5-pin reinforced plastic one with side exit. I checked the West Marine catalog for that connector recently, but didn't see them. I've used that model on two boats for a total of maybe 15 years with good success.

-- Leon Sisson

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RADIOGUY
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 13:11:48

HOW DID YOU GO THRU THE DECK....A NEW HOLE THRU TO THE HEADLINER?

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 13:24:32

I, like Leon, abandoned the original wiring when I installed a new deck connector. Instead of repositioning the deck connector, I used the same mounting spot, but when I drilled the hole for the new wiring, I angled it forward so the wiring would exit next to the bulkhead in the head. I then lead the wiring along the top of the bulkhead to a hole in the shelf behind the head. From there it is routed under the liner on the port side to the electrical panel in the lazarette.

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RADIOGUY
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 13:38:31

BRILLIANT!! THANK YOU...IT IS MUCH EASIER TO FOLLOW IN SOMEONE ELSES FOOT STEPS THEN GOING INTO IT BLIND....I WILL CHECK IT OUT WHEN I GET HOME TONIGHT.
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP.
DAVE

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 13:57:23

Dave, hi!
STOP YELLING.

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clayC
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 15:49:03

I guess it is a bit late now, because I have just re-wired my mast, but why 5 pin plug?

Clay C

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 18:47:39

Clay C,<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">... why 5 pin plug?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">That's how many pins the connector comes with. I like that connector so much I'd use it even if I only needed 3 pins.
<ul><li>1.) negative/return/ground/common/whatever you want to call it.</li>
<li>2.) Steaming light.</li>
<li>3.) Anchor light on top of mast. (Not to be confused with a 'masthead light'.

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<li>4.) Foredeck light.</li>
<li>5.) Spare at masthead for windvane light or whatever. Extra pin could also be used to double up on common return for better current handling when foredeck light is in use.</li></ul>-- Leon Sisson

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 19:46:57

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by RADIOGUY
 BRILLIANT!! THANK YOU...IT IS MUCH EASIER TO FOLLOW IN SOMEONE ELSES FOOT STEPS THEN GOING INTO IT BLIND....I WILL CHECK IT OUT WHEN I GET HOME TONIGHT.
THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP.
DAVE

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Odds are you are still going to screw something up, just not anything that we already screwed up.

Good luck and when you go to drill your hole where the old one was use a long but very very small drill bit. If you miss you can use that as a guide an there is less of a hole to fill.

dw

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RADIOGUY
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Response Posted - 04/26/2006 : 20:50:08

I NEVER SCREW UP...Sometimes I like to do things wrong for the learning experience
Dave

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clayC
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Response Posted - 04/27/2006 : 09:50:06

Thanks Leon,
I guess I am a man of little vision, who knows what may be "needed" on the mast in the next few years. At least I didnt miss and thing to obvious. Like the time I forgot to weigh the anchor. We stopped in the middle of the lake, had a bit of dinner, and a couple of glasses of wine. The breeze was nice, the sails seemed to be shaped ok but the boat just kept swinging around. Ah the learning curve!! But the help I have recived here has flattened it a bunch

thanks
Clay C

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RADIOGUY
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Response Posted - 04/27/2006 : 22:39:00

I drilled the hole in the deck pointing the bit foward and it came out in the head right beside the bulkead..puuurrrfect...now I have to go to WM and get some wire...thanks....
Dave

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