No power to dash

[Mydiamond]

Engines start. shore power energizes 110v appliances and battery charger

When I flip 12v breakers …… nothing.

All fuses found are good.

Any ideas where to look next.

[jclark003]

It would help to identify what boat you have. Also what 12v circuits/breakers are affected. Presumably you are describing the circuits assigned to the house battery bank. If so and you are comfortable working around electrical circuits, first thing I would do is check the house battery bank connections and grounding.

Breakers and battery disconnect switches do go bad from time to time. It’s really just a process of working backwards from the cabin panel until you find volts or forward from battery bank until you have no volts. House Power typically runs from house battery bank to disconnect switch, to cabin breaker and or helm breakers. Some boats have multiple main breakers with one in engine room (ie cabin main) and another at the cabin distribution panel. To test breakers or disconnect switches use your test meter to check for 12V on both terminals with breaker closed (on). No volts on either terminal means the problem is down stream towards the battery bank, 12v one one terminal means a bad breaker, and 12V on both terminals means the breaker is working and problem is up stream towards the panel.

Hope this helps.

[Donaldjames]

Was the boat in storage by any chance did you disconnect the batteries. While on the topic of the batteries, did you check voltage on them as well?

[Mydiamond]

Was the boat in storage by any chance did you disconnect the batteries. While on the topic of the batteries, did you check voltage on them as well?

I do have to start from basics. With no 12v I have to lift the deck - going to try with a battery pack.
Then begin the tracing

Thanks

[jclark003]

If you have power to the starting bank, try paralleling the batteries or closing the emergency battery interconnect if you have one. If things come to life that will tell you your batteries are dead or that you have a connection issue between the battery bank and disconnect switch (including possible ground issue)

[Mydiamond]

Closing out the thread.
3 years ago I added a house battery. All 12v panel was moved to this battery..
It feeds off of port starter battery… for charging….which was bad.

I replaced all 3 batteries…. And all is well with the world.

Thanks everyone for the guidance