Ok Ive been an electrician for a long long time. I installed a 12 volt outlet in the dash of my 1998 Sabre. Went night fishing and it powered my blacklight fine. Then pluged in my spotlight to move to another part of the lake and had nothing! Plugged in blacklight= nothing, cell phone charger=nothing. Storm was coming so a had to fast idle 2 miles with a flashlight.Today I go out to troubleshoot it and it works with cell phone, blacklight and the powerlight comes on the Brinkmann spotlights cord but when I flip the switch nothing happens and the power indicator light goes out. When I flip the switch off the power indicator light comes right back on. What am I missing here??I got power from a pink wire that goes to a courtesy light on the side of the dash and put a 15 amp fuse in it. the fuse is good.Every time I put the spot light in the power goes out.The night out on the water it did not ever come back on. I turned the master switch off and on, nothing helped. Today it is like a thermal breaker it tripping and instantly resetting because of the light pulling to much current.Outlet is a 12volt marine grade. 2 blade connections in the back and nothing else. I can see the blade connectors go directly to the bottom contact and inside casing. No short/overload protection is biult in the outlet, that is why I put a 15 amp fuse inline.What is going on and how can I fix it? Ill install another outlet under the dash for the spotlight if I know which wire will reliably feed it power and use the one I have now for small stuff.I need a spotlight to go night fishing and I need to keep my phone charged because I had Navionics on my phone.Hoping to go night fishing again this weekend if I can straighten this out.
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