Wiring for Lights

[HALITIGE]

Just put the first 22 hours on our new Tige and we are loving it, just a question about the lighting tho.....We had speakers wired to the tower with lights and now at night there is no way to just have our docking lights or nav lights on they only come on all together, Neighbours not really loving the high beams, our marina tells us that there is no way to seperate the two, but I find this hard to believe, should they have been wired on the same connection to begin with? Any ideas would be appreciated!

[boardman74]

What boat is it? If its a new boat with Tige Touch. Nav lights, docking lights, and tower lights are all on separate circuits with separate switches.

[chpthril]

HaliTige,

Welcome to the forum.

Start by clarifying what extra lighting was added to your boat, was it tower speaker LED rings or forward/rearward facing spot/flood lights?

I would not suggest having any other lighting tied to the NAV/ANC lights, since they are required. Depending on the year and model of your boat, Tige has had options for tower lights, and now LED speaker rings, with their own output. Sounds like your installer tied your new lights into the 1st light output they came across.

[HALITIGE]

We have a 2014 R20 and had the marina add speakers/light (can be turned either way) combo to tower, Just seemed strange that we couldn't have our Nav/Anc lights on without the big spots on, so makes sense that they may have wired into the 1st output they found. They are offering a 4 hr fix $$ to us but shouldn't that have been done correctly to begin with?

[chpthril]

Does your helm have any ACC switches? Good chance one might be unused.

[boardman74]

The R20 from the factory actually has 2 empty acc switches. I'm not sure why that wasn't the first place they went. Should take less than a half hour to reroute the wires to one of those switches.