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Yet Another Power Wedge Issue Question


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I had my toggle switch bezels rechromed this offseason which meant unhooking all the toggle switches and hooking them back up ... twice :cry:  My power wedge will swipe with key on and off but no response from anything while hitting up or down on the toggle while moving or not.  So first of all can anyone verify that I hooked up the power wedge switch correctly.  It's the switch nearest the ignition switch with the black, blue, white, and green wires.

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If that looks ok, then in all my years on this forum I have yet to see a pic of the power wedge fuse that often trips and can be reset.  So I apologize if I've missed it but in all these pics can someone pin point where this fuse may be?  My headunit is relocated so extra congested in this area with the extra wiring and the mount and braces.

 

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I don't have a power wedge, but I may be able to help with the switch issue. If it's a 3 position switch with middle being off, up position being wedge up, and down position being wedge down, it should be wired:

Constant 12 volts to middle of switch (probably from the 12v bus/circuit breaker), up motor rotation wire to top of switch, and down motor rotation to bottom of switch. The ground on the switch should go to ground bus. If you didn't already know how to do this, you can check which wire is the constant 12v by using a multimeter set to DC voltage. Touch a lead to the bare spade on the wire, and the other lead to the ground bus  (the batteries have to be switched on). When you find the wire that is reads 12 volts, that is the feed for the switch.

Is the switch built with 4 terminals? Like 1 on top, 1 in the middle, and 2 on the bottom? There is a way to test if the switch is bad, but you need to know which terminal on the switch does what. If you know the constant 12v terminal, turn your multimeter to continuity (tone/beep when the leads are touched together). Put a probe on the 12v constant terminal, and the other  on any other terminal. Push the switch up. If it beeps, that terminal is where your "up" motor lead goes. If nothing happens, push the switch down. If it beeps, this is where the "down" motor lead goes. You shouldn't have a beep on the ground terminal.

Sorry for the long post, and it might not even help. Hell, I don't know how the power wedge works, but if you have 4 wires on a 3 position switch, i'm willing to bet it's close. Good luck.

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Thanks Chatty, thats a good overview for troubleshooting the switch, of course I don't know which color wire (blue, white or green) is for up or down but I can easily swap them later.  Actually I had a random green wire on the ground bus and I'm thinking this it.  So up and down would be blue and white.  

 

Still searching for a pic or reference point of the elusive power wedge fuse...?

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I remember doing this when I swapped the plastic bezels in my 06 for chrome ones. Seemed like a million wires to keep track of. I just wrote every thing down on a paper sketch but was still nervous about getting it all back together correctly. I will check and see if I still have the info but think it went with new owner.

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15 hours ago, jcon44 said:

just compare the above picture to the one you took before you unplugged everything... :whistle:

I think that's a knock on how many pics I take...?  But I never seem to have the one I need :cry:

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On 5/12/2016 at 3:51 PM, dalt1 said:

I remember doing this when I swapped the plastic bezels in my 06 for chrome ones. Seemed like a million wires to keep track of. I just wrote every thing down on a paper sketch but was still nervous about getting it all back together correctly. I will check and see if I still have the info but think it went with new owner.

Just looked and must have sent that info with old boat. Sorry.

 

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3 hours ago, Ndawg12 said:

Thanks Dalt1, still searching for this elusive fuse that everyone resets but has no idea where it is...

I don't have a pic handy, but on my '10, it is under the dash in the big black fuse box.  The fuse was light blue and had a little black toggle like the red one in the pic.

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There were 2 IIRC. One as shown above and one on a wire coming from the black Lenco control box (your 3rd pic). I think it's in a red or orange case. Can't check right now, but I hope this helps.

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14 hours ago, jwl019 said:

I don't have a pic handy, but on my '10, it is under the dash in the big black fuse box.  The fuse was light blue and had a little black toggle like the red one in the pic.

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11 hours ago, Dexter said:

There were 2 IIRC. One as shown above and one on a wire coming from the black Lenco control box (your 3rd pic). I think it's in a red or orange case. Can't check right now, but I hope this helps.

I think I've seen everything under there and I don't recall a fuse box.  I wonder if they changed that from 07 to 10...?

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Just now, Ndawg12 said:

 

 

I think I've seen everything under there and I don't recall a fuse box.  I wonder if they changed that from 07 to 10...?

Quite possibly, if all your pics in post #1 are from under the helm, then they did change it up some.  Now that I think about it, I remember some people having to order some extra items when swapping to the new wedge actuators that I didn't need while replacing mine.

Could the fuse be inside your Lenco box?

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31 minutes ago, jwl019 said:

Quite possibly, if all your pics in post #1 are from under the helm, then they did change it up some.  Now that I think about it, I remember some people having to order some extra items when swapping to the new wedge actuators that I didn't need while replacing mine.

Could the fuse be inside your Lenco box?

That's what I'm thinking.  My wiring up there is a rats nest that I need to clean up so I've been avoiding pulling that box, plus I wasn't sure how to unhook the wire harness.  After I troubleshoot my switch wiring and verify it's correct then I'm thinking my next step is to pull that box.

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Not sure how I jacked this up but it appears I just hooked up the wires wrong.  Thanks for those who tried to help and Jconn44 for letting me crawl around under his dash.

 

Wrong

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