Hi Kevin. I suggest the following steps:
1. Use a decent digital voltmeter to test the circuit as follows. If you don’t have one, head off to the store with at least $25.00 in your hot little hands and buy one. It will be very useful. 2. Make sure the panel breaker feeding the fan is turned on. 3. Using the meter, check for battery voltage between the output connection on the breaker feeding the fan and ground. 4. If there is no voltage on the output of the breaker, check the input side of the breaker to make sure it is getting power. You should now know if the breaker is good or not. Replace if needed or move the fan wire to another known good breaker. 5. Check the connections on the wire feeding your fan. Are they crimped properly? If in doubt, redo them. 6. If you have determined that electricity is present at the feed end of the fan wire and the fan is still not working, measure across the connections at the fan both with the fan switch turned on and off. There should be voltage present. If not, or if the voltage drops drastically when the fan switch is turned on, check your connections and the wire you installed carefully. 7. You should have found the problem by the end of step 6. There may be some shaky connections in the fan itself that may have caused it to run at the battery and not when installed. Wiggle the wires….? Hope this helps. Rich. On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:55, Kevin Paxton via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: I'm trying to install some cabin fans. (https://www.westmarine.com/buy/caframo--sirocco-cabin-fans--P012_361_002_507 <https://www.westmarine.com/buy/caframo--sirocco-cabin-fans--P012_361_002_507>). Amperage High: 0.31 Amps Medium: 0.24 Amps Low: 0.14 Amps I wired it all up yesterday to my breaker panel and when trying to turn it on, nothing happened. I then took it off the wall and connected it directly to the battery, and it worked just fine. I then tried to connect to directly to the feed line of the breaker panel and it didn't work. I'm not an electrical expert but I would think connecting it the way I did to the breaker panel would not have a large voltage drop. I was using 16awg from the breaker to the mounting location. I might be a little low on the gauge of wire for that length I admit. That was my first guess. But connecting to the panel line feed directly still didn't do anything and that baffled me. Any ideas on what could be going wrong? The batteries are new last year. My battery meter was saying approx 70% charge capacity when doing all of this. The cabin lights and other electronics were working while I was trying to do this too. I'm at a complete loss here. _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: https://www.paypal.me/stumurray All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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