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<blockquote data-quote="Firewalker" data-source="post: 8794395" data-attributes="member: 676743"><p>I also was a service & parts manager on the Gulf Coast of Florida at Osprey Marina before they sold it many years ago. Been lucky enough to be all over the Gulf, Atlantic, Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Bay of Green Bay and a few other rivers as well.</p><p></p><p>Look for breaks in the wires, look for anything suspect with the way water gets into boats anything can happen. I used to double insulate everything when we would install anything regardless of the wire or accessory being put in. If you are not getting the display to light up then something is broken down the line or a bad ground. I would clean all the grounds you find, maybe even run a new ground wire for the heck of it back to the engine block if it is an i/o setup. Best to start simple and work your way back from the radio and harness.</p><p></p><p>I finally got to the point when doing radios since they rarely came with a real harness from the factory I would buy one for a GM or Ford radio wire that into the boat replacing w/e stupid harness or setup they had and then buy the matching aftermarket radio harness that plugged right in. Made things 1000 times easier. Usually though I had to run a separate ground in order to get the radios up and running since marine radios never had the features we needed. Plus I would really bracket the hell out of them any way I could so the CD player wouldn't skip, heck we even had a 10 disc changer setup in ours at one point with Infinite Baffle 10" subs, 4 6.5" and then tweeters up on both sides of the cockpit along with a passive EQ installed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Firewalker, post: 8794395, member: 676743"] I also was a service & parts manager on the Gulf Coast of Florida at Osprey Marina before they sold it many years ago. Been lucky enough to be all over the Gulf, Atlantic, Mississippi River, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Bay of Green Bay and a few other rivers as well. Look for breaks in the wires, look for anything suspect with the way water gets into boats anything can happen. I used to double insulate everything when we would install anything regardless of the wire or accessory being put in. If you are not getting the display to light up then something is broken down the line or a bad ground. I would clean all the grounds you find, maybe even run a new ground wire for the heck of it back to the engine block if it is an i/o setup. Best to start simple and work your way back from the radio and harness. I finally got to the point when doing radios since they rarely came with a real harness from the factory I would buy one for a GM or Ford radio wire that into the boat replacing w/e stupid harness or setup they had and then buy the matching aftermarket radio harness that plugged right in. Made things 1000 times easier. Usually though I had to run a separate ground in order to get the radios up and running since marine radios never had the features we needed. Plus I would really bracket the hell out of them any way I could so the CD player wouldn't skip, heck we even had a 10 disc changer setup in ours at one point with Infinite Baffle 10" subs, 4 6.5" and then tweeters up on both sides of the cockpit along with a passive EQ installed. [/QUOTE]
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