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If no voltage is present then check that all motor harness and control box plug connections are tight and in place. If a bow thruster is also installed we advice to use seper-ate battery banks for the two thrusters to avoid extreme voltage drop if both thrusters were to be used at the same time.
I want to give a public thanks to Ray LaVoie at IMTRA Side Power.
Side power bow thruster troubleshooting. Recommended Tools For Trouble-Shooting. Small Jumper Wire for Side-Power Thruster. Metric Allen Wrenches 4mm to 12 mm.
Metric wrenches or sockets. Needle Nose Vise-Grips. For holding jammed nuts when removing battery cables from motor Phillips head screwdriver.
Small jumper wire. SIDE-POWER THRUSTER SYSTEMS CONFIDENCE BY CONTROL Troubleshooting DC Thrusters - 78 2. Bypass thruster control box and check thruster solenoid operation.
With long jumper wire jump from negative battery stud to D1 coil grey signal wire for port run and to D2 coil blue signal wire for starboard run. If thruster runs properly than the control. SIDE-POWER THRUSTER SYSTEMS CONFIDENCE BY CONTROL Troubleshooting DC Thrusters - 58 4.
Check control system positive and negative. Check for voltage between the battery negative stud and red wire on motor harness pigtail. If no voltage is present then check that all motor harness and control box plug connections are tight and in place.
SIDE-POWER THRUSTER SYSTEMS CONFIDENCE BY CONTROL Troubleshooting DC Thrusters - 34 Shown here is a shearpin worn from bracket miss-alignment after breakage. Metal fillings will be seen on the top of the gearleg in the event of this type of failure. All tunnel build up must be removed in order to eliminate reoccurrence of this failure.
Follow Side-Powers replacement procedures for ignition protected motors. These trouble-shooting procedures require attempting to run the motor by by-passing the control panel. Special precautions must be taken when if running the thruster when the thruster props are out of the water.
Side-Power IPC system will recognize the low voltage condition and automatically shut the thruster motor off for 4 seconds. If the operator continues to give a run command the IPC system will then re-engage the motor for a half second every 4 seconds. It will do this 3 times and then will not allow a run command for another 30 seconds.
When running the thruster if it stops and then. In the past 2 weeks the Side Power bow thruster on my 2006 330 Express has only been working sporadically. Sometimes when I pushed the on buttons it would turn on and sometimes it wouldnt no matter how many times I tried.
Now it doesnt come on at all. When it was coming on the thruster worked fine. It seems to me to be an electrical issue.
Look at the Side-Power website and find the manual for your thruster. It should show you where the shear pins go. As I recall on my thruster its necessary to remove the prop and the shear pin is.
Side Power Thrusters Customer Support and Troubleshooting. I want to give a public thanks to Ray LaVoie at IMTRA Side Power. I have a thruster which currently only goes to starboard.
Thruster assembly Installation and user manual Keep this manual onboard. SIDE-POWER Thruster Systems 2175 NW 34th Ave Miami FL 33142 USA Phone. 1 Shut off dedicated thruster battery switch or remove the fuse from the thruster circuit.
Check for voltage across the positive and negative battery cable studs on the motor to ensure battery power to the thruster is not present. Secure the jam nut behind the cable lug when loosening the outer nut. Panel to enable efficient troubleshooting if necessary DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We Sleipner Motor AS.
Supports Side-Power retractable thrusters with or without Speed Control. 4 PJC2112122212223 - MENU Speed control joystick for bow thruster Speed control joystick for stern thruster Information display see following pages for details. If a bow thruster is also installed we advice to use seper-ate battery banks for the two thrusters to avoid extreme voltage drop if both thrusters were to be used at the same time.
Refer to the thruster manuals for adviced battery capacity and cable sizes for each thruster. Side Power Problem Had sort of the same problem with our Sidepower stern thruster almost ashamed to admit the boat has one but it came with it and it was the brushes. Replaced them and the springs and it puts out more than the bow thruster now.
Bow Stern Thrusters SE Series SE IP Series SE PRO Series SE IP PRO Series EB Series. Select the maximum possible diameter for the hull. Check the tunnel openings have the correct geometry.
Install the tunnel deep enough not to suck air from the surface and through the tunnel. If you want a more massive heavy-duty bow or stern thruster we recommend a proportionally controlled thruster. 47 69 30 00 60.
If you cant find an answer to your questions you are very welcome to contact us. Our phone line is open Monday to Friday 0800-1600 CET. The Sleipner unique thruster controller that intelligently protects the thruster from potential inherent problems in all high current applications as well as user faults.
It includes several important safety features imperative in a product with such high power run by DC electrics as a thruster. Provides delay between drive directions. The power to the thrusters controlsystem and panel is supplied by the seriesparalell switch box via the grey and black leads to the control side of the thrusters solenoid only.
Both batteries are now at 0V - 12V- Batt1 12V SIDE-POWER M 24 VDC- Batt2 12V SIDEPOWER Series paralell switch box To engine starter alternator charger etc-FIG 1. If a bow thruster is also installed we strongly advice to use separate battery banks for the two thrusters to avoid extreme voltage drop if both thrusters are to be used at the same time. Refer to the thruster manuals for adviced battery capacity and cable sizes for each thruster.
Also ensure that you do not have direct connections of both. To retro fit the new thruster I would have to glass over the existing holes in the tunnel and start from fresh with the specs of the new side power thruster. As for the electrical I was advised that I can use the existing 4 wire harness to the thruster by cutting off the plugs on both ends and installing the new side power cable ends.
Side-Power SM897724 Automatic Main Switch for S-Link without Fuse 24V Added safety by the panels auto off and the thrusters overheat sensor also controlling the main switch. Flexible mounting options 24V Other Options. It is time to change the gear oil in my Sleipner bow thruster gear legIf there is water in the oil it will stay in the bottom of the drive and over time des.