New Correct Craft Owner!

SNobsessed wrote: Lizzy - Careful, you may have to start answering the newbie questions! Great that you got the hang of it; the benefit of doing it yourself is the knowledge that the boat is in good shape.

SNobessed! Love the newbie questions idea! I look forward to the day I can answer them!! I have a horn issue maybe u all can advise. I crawled under the dash to find the horn. Checked the switch n its all good. The question is where did they hide the horn? My husband bought me a whistle...but as a new boater better idea to have a working horn....just in case! Any ideas?

"Have Reid show you how to use the volt/Ohm meter"   

Closest I have ever seen Reid work on a boat, was watching someone ELSE work on one of his boats.
I'm sure Lizzy's hubby, Matt will give her lesson's on how to use it. He has the knowledge and she is willing to learn, great combination.

kytom2 wrote: Closest I have ever seen Reid work on a boat, was watching someone ELSE work on one of his boats.

A BIG TIME WRONG ON THIS ONE!!

Liz, congratulations on learning how to do things for yourself. I don't have the patience to show mine and she doesn't care to learn. That being said I can call her and have her meet at the dock with boat and she very able to hook it up, pull it the dock and back it in. I would trust her to pull it anywhere.

Chris if she knows what good for her,she better get them thru Race City

See what you have missed Lizzy when you let Matt go to reunions? I'm sure you already knew!

Wow, some good old equipment from the old days of phone repair! The first time I saw one was when we were having issues with a copper pair from one of our alarms. (yes, when it rained!! ) This older repair person (Back then they were not called "techs") shows up and pulls a meter out of an old leather case, phones into the "office" for a shunt to be placed on the pair at that end and then hooks up the meter. He told me it was a "point" meter. To me, it looked just like a Ohm meter with a different scale on it. I guess you phone guys needed to read "points" and not Ohms!    The reading he got was not good. I think he spent the rest of the day at plenty of "ped's". The copper pair problem when it rained continued to haunt us and the fire dept started to bill us for their calls. We solved the problem by dumping the copper and going wireless!!

Gary S wrote: Most alarms are wireless now Pete.

Yes, Schiller Park passed an ordinance requiring us to go wireless (fire only) directly to their monitoring station on all 5 of our systems but I maintained the hard wire to our own monitoring. I'm not too excited about the wireless since it does not point ID the problem and glad we kept the hard wire. With the hard, I can typically tell what's going on when the monitoring station calls me and reports what is tripping the alarm.

BTW, that ordinance in Schiller was passed and the alarm company selected was of course due to "politics". Yup, there are VERY close "ties" inside the village with the alarm company!!   

Internal premise wireless has come a long way as well. Nice since you don't need to pull all that wire through walls with fire blocking in it. I know you have been there many times and have even used the old beaded chain trick!! I installed a wireless in my new shop up north. Nice except the first two controls I got were from my alarm guy that services the plant. He ebays and it's where he got them very cheap. Well, these first two went into full alarm during my programming. My alarm guy found out the two were ADT with special programs!! The third unit was the generic version and is up and running without a problem.

SNobsessed wrote: Lizzy - Check the ground, mostly likey fault in the circuit. If the horns are indeed bad, you can get new one's for about $30 a pc on the 'net. I added a 3rd horn last year to get a bit more 'bark'.

Ok will do on checking the ground! Thanks for the info, you guys are great!

I am SO excited to be US Coast Guard Aux. approved & licensed to drive my boat now!!!! I spent Saturday, for 8 hours, in an awesome class, given by the Coast Guard, to learn more about boating and safety. At the end of class I tested for my boaters license and passed! I HIGHLY recommend this class for all boaters youg & seasoned! It has invaluable information about safety and understanding boaters responsibilities! Boating is FUN, and also a serious responsibility!!!!

Congrats

8122pbrainard wrote: Lizzy, I'm impressed. Congratulations. I'm happy to hear you say and understand that boating is a "serious responsibility".

Thanks! And yes, i did not realize until taking this course just HOW much of a responsibility it is to own a boat! My wonderful husband has spoiled me...i just show up and have fun. Now that i am learning, it's a whole new ballgame - one that i love however

That is the finishing touch Lizzy!

Lizzy---- Did you get the set of CC Guide Pole Covers from Reid? He had 1 set left from the Benjamin Bash.