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Captain YARRR
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Stereo turning on and off
Aug 9th, 2010 at 7:51pm
 
This weekend my deck was turning on and off with no regularity while sitting still. Any ideas on troubleshooting this? My first guess is that I have some wires grounding out. Any other ideas before I start taking things apart?
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Re: Stereo turning on and off
Reply #1 - Aug 9th, 2010 at 10:07pm
 
flaky fuse (inline or the on the back of the radio if there is one), loose ground or power wire. I have also seen speaker wires touching and turning off a deck once before.
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Re: Stereo turning on and off
Reply #2 - Aug 9th, 2010 at 11:11pm
 
Almost always a bad ground.  If a boat is having electrical issues, it's a ground.  Wink

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Re: Stereo turning on and off
Reply #3 - Aug 10th, 2010 at 8:09pm
 
Thanks for the second opinion, I figured as much Smiley
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Re: Stereo turning on and off
Reply #4 - Aug 11th, 2010 at 6:02pm
 
Yeah, pull the speakers first and if that doesn't work...start tracing the wires.
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