Need wiring schematics for boat guages?

Question

I have a 1983glastron cvx-16 and need to wire the lights, tach horn fuel guage there are 2 wires coming off the fuel guage one pink from the center and the other looks to be comming off of a bracket not conacted to the tanks fuel guage

Answer 1

Hi mate, generally for your guages you  will need a + and a - for the lights in them to work and the guage (im guessing is electronic) will have one left for the sender wire to hook up to. at the other end the + is to be connected to your sender and a - to the nearest ground or metalic or run back to your - on your batt. most of them will work in the same way and volts is the easiest. sorry no schematics but generally if you wire it backwards it will work backwards. ive never hurt 1. hope this helps

Answer 2

Wiring your gauges is pretty easy to do as there are only 3 wires per gauge.You have a positive,negative and sender wire.Your positive wire goes to the I which is the ignition terminal,the negative goes to the negative terminal and the sender wire to the S terminal.That's it,done.To make it a little easier I'll give you the usual colour's of the sender wires.

OIL pressure = light blue

Fuel =pink or yellow usually pink

Tach=gray

Temp=light brown or brown

Trim sender=brown with a white stripe.

Light wire for gauges=blue

Your positive wire for your gauges is purple and this wire starts from your key switch,from the I terminal.I hope this helps.