I have a pump that has three wires. black , brown and brown and white.
I have a bildge float switch that has two wires that are the same
color blue.
How is the switch put into the line ?
DIY said one switch goes to a black ground wire amd the other goes to
the solid brown. Then DIY says hook it up to the battery.
They are missing a step ?
I have a red and black coming from the battery. Where does the power
and ground get hooked up to ?

"sonofadocker" wrote in message
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I have a pump that has three wires. black , brown and brown and white.
I have a bildge float switch that has two wires that are the same
color blue.
How is the switch put into the line ?
DIY said one switch goes to a black ground wire amd the other goes to
the solid brown. Then DIY says hook it up to the battery.
They are missing a step ?
I have a red and black coming from the battery. Where does the power
and ground get hooked up to ?


The Brown is the power for the bilge pump. Run that to a fused 12V. Run
the Black to ground. Your pump is an automatic pump so do not need the
float switch and the 3rd wire on the pump is to run to a toggle switch to
12v to run the pump as you desire.

On Apr 23, 6:17 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"sonofadocker" wrote in message

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I have a pump that has three wires. black , brown and brown and white.
I have a bildge float switch that has two wires that are the same
color blue.
How is the switch put into the line ?
DIY said one switch goes to a black ground wire amd the other goes to
the solid brown. Then DIY says hook it up to the battery.
They are missing a step ?
I have a red and black coming from the battery. Where does the power
and ground get hooked up to ?

The Brown is the power for the bilge pump. Run that to a fused 12V. Run
the Black to ground. Your pump is an automatic pump so do not need the
float switch and the 3rd wire on the pump is to run to a toggle switch to
12v to run the pump as you desire.

The boat is 27 years old. there is always 2-3 inches of water in the
boat.
The auto pump auctally stays on all the time. I do not want to use it
right now.
I went back outside to my boat and tried it again.
I have another pump that is a two wire only.How does the two wire pump
black/ground brown/positive get hooked up to the battery and the two
blue wire float ?

sorry- I should of made that point earlier.

"sonofadocker" wrote in message
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On Apr 23, 6:17 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
"sonofadocker" wrote in message

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I have a pump that has three wires. black , brown and brown and white.
I have a bildge float switch that has two wires that are the same
color blue.
How is the switch put into the line ?
DIY said one switch goes to a black ground wire amd the other goes to
the solid brown. Then DIY says hook it up to the battery.
They are missing a step ?
I have a red and black coming from the battery. Where does the power
and ground get hooked up to ?

The Brown is the power for the bilge pump. Run that to a fused 12V. Run
the Black to ground. Your pump is an automatic pump so do not need the
float switch and the 3rd wire on the pump is to run to a toggle switch to
12v to run the pump as you desire.

The boat is 27 years old. there is always 2-3 inches of water in the
boat.
The auto pump auctally stays on all the time. I do not want to use it
right now.
I went back outside to my boat and tried it again.
I have another pump that is a two wire only.How does the two wire pump
black/ground brown/positive get hooked up to the battery and the two
blue wire float ?

sorry- I should of made that point earlier.


I run the black to ground and the brown to the float switch. Either wire
and the other wire of the float switch to fused power. I also add another
wire to the brown connected to the float switch and run that to a toggle
switch to fused power. So either the float switch or the toggle switch can
power the pump. IF you always have a couple of inches of water in the
bilge, I would search for the leak.