More QC Issues

[Jimbo]

With the fair amount of talk about quality control these days, I thought I'd report on an issue we had with QC this past weekend. We were up at our cabin on Sat. and had a visit from some friends who invited us up to their place, which was about a 15 min run up the lake, for dinner. We gladly accepted and finished up our jobs around the cabin, cleaned up and headed out about 7:30 PM. After a great meal, some karaoke (these people camp in style) we headed down to the boat about 11:30PM to head home. I tried to turn on a cabin light, nothing, tried the lights in the berth, nothing. I was in no mood to start rewiring the boat Luckily the ignition is powered off the motor so we were able to get the motor started. I haywired a cord from the battery for our 12v floodlight and we headed out, sans even running lights, not good. Made it home OK and got to bed.
The next morning I headed down to the boat with my handy dandy 12v tester and crawled in behind the helm to start checking for power. Couldn't, get any power to the main buss that powers up all the switches on my 6 switch panel. Dug a little deeper and finally found the problem. The #12 gauge wire (they didn't allow for much power when mine was built) from the battery had broken off at the solder point. Imagine that after (lets see, I need to take my socks off to count that high,) 26 years the damn wire wore out. Man I think I,ll be emailing the Tolands to find out about this. They just don,t build'em like they used to. Any way, grabbed my portable solder gun and had us back up and running in no time.
Jimbo

[SENSEI]

I had a similar problem with the Sensei
also the #12 wire feeding the helm.
I decided to rewire the whole boat and went with # 4 wire hot and ground from batteries to helm.quite spendy but worth it I believe.I didn't think that I should run all the new electronics off of #12 wire.

[matt_unique]

Yeah that's just unacceptable! Ha ha!