2003 Four Winns Vista 268 No power to accessories, cabin accessories, etc. Gauges have power and engine.

[mckaras]

I was changing out the shower sump on my cruiser and I tried to turn on the radio. No power at all. Radio is brand new. Everything else worked on it yesterday, I did accidently leave the battery switch turned to on yesterday and everything worked including the radio.

I noticed my batteries were weak since the lights in the cabin and bathroom were barely lit up. After I switched on the charger/fridge breaker on shore power all the accessories inside the cabin and cockpit stopped working... I checked the breakers at the fuse panel and the battery switch. It appears a breaker was flipped and I am curious where else I can look. Batteries are also brand new. The fireboy gas fumes indicator seems to be on at all times no matter the batteries are switched on or off? Could that be the cause of the battery drain? It is an original battery charger on the boat which was off until I switched the breaker off and that is when I had everything else stop working.

It's a charge pro 2620.

 

[StewartL]

Check the main battery fuse or breaker near the battery switch, not just the panel. A tripped main circuit breaker could kill power to everything. The Fireboy alarm has a separate constant power source and is not your drain. Your weak batteries and tripped breaker suggest a possible short or the old charger failing. Reset all breakers, including any hidden main ones, and test the charger's output.

 

[mckaras]

Check the main battery fuse or breaker near the battery switch, not just the panel. A tripped main circuit breaker could kill power to everything. The Fireboy alarm has a separate constant power source and is not your drain. Your weak batteries and tripped breaker suggest a possible short or the old charger failing. Reset all breakers, including any hidden main ones, and test the charger's output.

I reset all the breakers inside the cabin and the ones near the battery switch. Something’s been draining the juice out of the batteries. They’re hardly a week old. Where would the main battery fuse be? There was only one on one of the batteries and it was not blown.

There are only two spots where the breakers are, on the switch and inside the cabin. I’m thinking it’s that battery charger. I’ll have to test it but after I turned it on that’s when all power to accessories went out on the entire boat.

I did have this same problem with batteries that were in the boat before where I went to test accessories that the batteries ended up being flat out dead hence why I replaced them.

 

[kd4pbs]

Sounds to me that when you switched your charger breaker on (not off as you wrote) then everything went out? That's rather odd. I think on my 2001 Vista 268 the charger AC input was fed from the same breaker as the refrigerator, which was also an AC/DC auto-switching model. As you wrote, all breakers and fuses are on the same panel as the battery switch in the cockpit cooler nook. Perhaps the main DC breaker decided to go North when it tripped (for whatever reason) and now doesn't function. These boats are not designed to spend a long time off the charger, as indeed there are devices which are connected to the battery feeds which stay on all the time. The gas sniffer as you noticed, the refrigerator (the breaker on the panel only controls the AC input, not the DC) and probably a few other things I can't remember.
PS: Good luck with the transom on that ship. Four Winns decided to cut the bottom edge on mine a bit too low, and water seeped in and rotted the transom out. I'll never own another Four Winns because of this... which sucks, because I think that 268 was the perfect size and layout.

 

[mckaras]

Sounds to me that when you switched your charger breaker on (not off as you wrote) then everything went out? That's rather odd. I think on my 2001 Vista 268 the charger AC input was fed from the same breaker as the refrigerator, which was also an AC/DC auto-switching model. As you wrote, all breakers and fuses are on the same panel as the battery switch in the cockpit cooler nook. Perhaps the main DC breaker decided to go North when it tripped (for whatever reason) and now doesn't function. These boats are not designed to spend a long time off the charger, as indeed there are devices which are connected to the battery feeds which stay on all the time. The gas sniffer as you noticed, the refrigerator (the breaker on the panel only controls the AC input, not the DC) and probably a few other things I can't remember.
PS: Good luck with the transom on that ship. Four Winns decided to cut the bottom edge on mine a bit too low, and water seeped in and rotted the transom out. I'll never own another Four Winns because of this... which sucks, because I think that 268 was the perfect size and layout.

Yeah that’s what I did, right after that it tripped the ship system’s breaker which I somehow glanced over and didn’t flip back on. Stupid me lol. My gas fume sensor/gauge may be the thing draining my battery possibly. Everything else is swapped off and it’s the only thing that is on. On top of it it’s always glowing red and I’m assuming it’s busted or sensor is shot. Entire gasoline system I drained and changed all the filters. Hasn’t been on since I picked it up as a project.

I’m curious what years had this problem with the transoms. Mine was needed only a 1 in portion repaired On the very bottom. I have another cruiser an 06 278 Vista but this one has the XDP I need to chuck out the window to swap over to a DPSM or Ocean X DP