Hello everyone,
I am a newbie to both this forum and as a boat owner. I am excited to be here and hope to learn a lot. I come with questions!
I recently purchased a used 17' Alweld aluminum boat and immediately started tinkering. The previous owner had several instruments messily wire together. I decided to redo the wiring and ran separate positive and negative wires from the front nav. light, the back nav. light, and bow mounted spotlight to a rocker panel. I stalled a negative bus bar between the battery and the rocker panel. The positive leads on all instruments connect directly to the rocker panel and the negative leads connect to the negative bus bar. All lights work fine when their corresponding switch is flipped. However, the spotlight now makes a very loud high-pitched whistling noise while on. I have searched the internet and this forum to try and find answers with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks
I am a newbie to both this forum and as a boat owner. I am excited to be here and hope to learn a lot. I come with questions!
I recently purchased a used 17' Alweld aluminum boat and immediately started tinkering. The previous owner had several instruments messily wire together. I decided to redo the wiring and ran separate positive and negative wires from the front nav. light, the back nav. light, and bow mounted spotlight to a rocker panel. I stalled a negative bus bar between the battery and the rocker panel. The positive leads on all instruments connect directly to the rocker panel and the negative leads connect to the negative bus bar. All lights work fine when their corresponding switch is flipped. However, the spotlight now makes a very loud high-pitched whistling noise while on. I have searched the internet and this forum to try and find answers with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks