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NacCat.
I am at least the 4th owner of a 2000 BassCat Sabre Silhoute Single console with casting deck extension. I am trying to clean her up and get to know her inside and out. Patch up some drill holes and replace worn or rusted out parts. Upgrade the Lowrance x98 fish finder that is installed in the dash to a HDS 10 Gen2 Touch. ( If anyone would like to donate to that cause please send me your credit card #) You know personalize her and bring her to her former glory. In the trolling motor well I am missing an item. As you can see from the picture I have a plug for the 36 volt 101 thrust maxxum trolling motor. The black and red wires run along the port side to the bank of 3 batteries. There are little stickers on both of those wires that have #1 on both the red and black wires. What I need help with is the black and white wires. They have a #2 on both of them. They also run along the port side of the boat and are cut at the rear in the bilge area. I cant tell what they went to. As you can see there is a hole in the plastic plate where something should be. What is it? I know that the green and blue and purple wires control the trim up and down function. I would like to also replace the plastic plate as well. How should I go about trying to get a replacement part like that when it isnt actually listed on the newly revamped parts/accessories page? Thank You All. P.S. I live in Woodland, CA. I almost get into wrecks when I see another BassCat pass me by on the freeway. If there are any fellow BassCatters out there in my area please drop me a line. This is my first bass boat and I would like to learn as much as I can from other experienced boaters. IMG_0013_zps297ff66d.jpg.htmlIMG_0012_zps6ac5ce48.jpg.html
I had a 99 P3 that had a battery voltage gauge in that place, they had a switch and you could check the voltage on separate batteries.
Yep, voltage gauge for trolling motor batteries…….. one of the small holes is for a double toggle switch. Up for battery 1and down for battery 2.
Put a surface temp gauge in there and put a toggle switch back in the hole to turn it on and off
BDigital,The wires you are referring to were originally used for the trolling motor. I have gone over this in a couple of other post http://basscatowners.yuku.com/reply/101 … ply-101608 and http://basscatowners.yuku.com/topic/177 … raw?page=1 but I will recap it here.On my 1994 Pantera II I have four wires going to the front, a red, white and two blacks, all four gauge wire. All four of these wires attach to a Marinco trolling motor recepticle that looks like this.The receptacle will have two circuits coming to it, the wires numbered 1 and 2. In the boats original configuration, if you have a 36v trolling motor on the boat then you must have a jumper wire going between two of the trolling motor batteries, one end attached to the positive side of one battery and the other end attached to the negative side of the other. This will give you 24v on that circuit. Then the other circuit will be attached to your cranking battery, or a third battery, and will be a 12v circuit. If you measure the voltage at the receptacle you should find a 24v circuit and a 12v circuit. That is how it is suppose to be. The plug is what puts the two circuit in series to create a single 36v circuit. Here is a picture of the back side of the plug with the housing taken off. If you have a 24v trolling motor then you would not have a jumper between two batteries but would have the wires labeled #1 on one battery and the wires labeled #2 on a second battery. Each circuit would be 12 volts.Notice the silver bar, it connects one side of the first circuit to the opposing side of the second circuit in series thus creating either a 24v or 36v circuit. I cannot remember if it is the positive of the first circuit to the negative of the second circuit or vice versa. If you only have the red and black #1 wires hooked to the receptical then you must have a jumper going between two batteries. The reason for all four wires was that BassCat designed the boat to be able to support either a 24v or 36v trolling motor and all you would have to do was connect the trolling motor in the correct holes on the back of the plug to get the desired voltage. I hope this helps. If you have any questions drop me a line at [url=mailto:[email protected]][email protected][/url].Enjoy the boat,Mike CoffeeNacogdoches, TexasLast edited by NacCat on October 16th, 2012, 6:31 am, edited 1 time in total.
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