Electrical Issue-Long Shot

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I have a 2013 285 Freedom. I believe I may have a short somewhere. There is a thin gauge wire connected to a 7.5 amp blade fuse on the remote fuse panel. The wire color is white. The owner's manual does not identify this wire. It looks like a factory install and is on the same screw terminal as my chartplotter. There is a duplicate white wire on the next screw also protected by a 7.5 amp blade fuse. Any idea what this wire is for? It keeps blowing the fuse.
 
JLR said:
I have a 2013 285 Freedom. I believe I may have a short somewhere. There is a thin gauge wire connected to a 7.5 amp blade fuse on the remote fuse panel. The wire color is white. The owner's manual does not identify this wire. It looks like a factory install and is on the same screw terminal as my chartplotter. There is a duplicate white wire on the next screw also protected by a 7.5 amp blade fuse. Any idea what this wire is for? It keeps blowing the fuse.
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What doesn't work when the fuse blows ?
 
Do you have Suzuki Outboards?
Two same white wires sound as a twin outboard thingy, but does not have to.

As steveditt wrote, you need to figure out what does not work when fuse is pulled/blown.
Check all electric devices till you find the one what is not working
If that is unsuccessful then you have to follow the white wire to find out where it goes, if it's not visible then check in/behind electrics box, dash panel, bilge area, bow area behind the doors or panels.
You may contact GW customer support to find out if they installed it and if so, for what.
Chris
 
Thanks all. I do not have an electrocis box ram. Also, I have Yammies. I cannot seem to find something that does not work. Will continue to work on it. Could those white wires also be coming from my Yamahas? My boat is a bit unusual. For vertical clearance reasons, I had to have to hardtop removed in Florida where I bought the boat. That mean all stuff, lights etc. that wer in the hardtop are no longer there. It appears to me that there is a load on this wire when all my switches are off but the battery switches are on. Something not controlled by an on off switch. BTW, both bilge pumps work.
 
Since the white wire is on the same feed as the chart plotter, I assume the chart plotter stops working when the fuse blows.
For now label the two white wires with the info on what they connected to and then disconnect them.
If the fuse still blows, the load isn't because of them. If the fuses no longer blow, the load is on the white wires. Go from there.
 
seasick said:
Since the white wire is on the same feed as the chart plotter, I assume the chart plotter stops working when the fuse blows.
For now label the two white wires with the info on what they connected to and then disconnect them.
If the fuse still blows, the load isn't because of them. If the fuses no longer blow, the load is on the white wires. Go from there.
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Makes sense. And yes, when that fuse blew, the plotter stopped working.
 
Are there no wires running to the hardtop anymore? When I pulled my tower and hardtop to refinish I pulled the wires back and when finished. Did they not do that for you?
 
I no longer have a hardtop.
 
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