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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bantou" data-source="post: 523442" data-attributes="member: 36587">Got the back up lights and boat nav lights hooked today. Back up lights worked great at first but after moving the boat around, all of the trailer lights quit working. Stern light works but I got a defective bow light. I have another one ordered. Hopefully it’s a one off situation.Back up lights pull a combined 3A (1.5Ax2). The rest of the lights shouldn’t have been enough to blow a fuse unless it had a 5A in it for some reason. Going to dig out the multimeter after work tomorrow and do some troubleshooting. Hopefully it’s just an undersized fuse and I don’t have to go hunting for a bad ground on new wiring.I don’t remember who came up with the idea for using 1/2” pvc to run the wiring, but whoever it was, you’re a life saver. I started out trying to fish the wires through on their own and then remember reading on here about using the PVC. Good Lord was that a time saver. 1/2” PVC wouldn’t fit in the channel under the ribs, but I had some 1/2” pex that was a perfect fit. I’m a little concerned about how the pex is going to hold up in the sun, but it’s what I had and I’ve already put way more than I had planned into this project.</blockquote>