Help! Power issues

[cwalden]

R23. Was in winter storage. Now in Fla. engine started fine. Thrusters ok but absolutely no other power on boat. No lights on main breaker panel. Now running engine to see if it is batteries. Also plugged in shore power, but no indication that is working. Still no lights on any panel. In cockpit locker looked at red switch on. Flipped invertor and house switches, then checked main panel again, nothing. Have no idea where to go from here. Needless to say disappointed. All help greatly appreciated. Maybe something simple I’ve overlooked. Thank you.


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[BB marine]

You may have a tripped house breaker. Check to see if it tripped or just reset it. Turn the parallel battery switch to on position with engine running, or with shore power plugged in and battery charger breaker on. My guess is your house batteries are low or dead. The charger or ACR's will not sense the house batteries because of the low charge state. The parallel battery switch will combine the house and engine battery. You will need to leave the parallel switch to on position until the charger or ACR's recognize the discharged batteries and start to charge them. Hopefully it is this simple and there are no other issues.

 

[cwalden]

Thanks so much. Have done so and will now wait to see if house batteries charging. I have shore power breakers on as well as battery charger breaker and emergency parallel set to on. Thanks very much for this. Is there any way to see when house batteries are charging?


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[Newf]

A quick check to see if it is a dead house battery, if you don't have a meter, would be to just jumper to the start battery. Had the same issue during a recent cold snap on my R21ec. Engine started fine but no power to anything else. I have short jumper cables made for this purpose and as soon as I connected the two battery everything worked immediately. I'm not familiar with your set-up so you may have a switch that does the same thing. Good luck.

 

[BB marine]

Thanks so much. Have done so and will now wait to see if house batteries charging. I have shore power breakers on as well as battery charger breaker and emergency parallel set to on. Thanks very much for this. Is there any way to see when house batteries are charging?


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When your battery switch (parallel is on position) engine running or battery Charger on the house systems should now work. Leave parallel switch to on position for a 10 or 15 minutes. Then turn it off. Your battery analog voltage gauge should now show voltage 12.5 + after charging for a while. The gauge should show more 13+ after charging, it will take a few hours to get fully charged with the 120V battery charger.