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All,
I purchased this Vista in June. I am trying to troubleshoot the lights on the pic below. Inhave a courtesy lights switch that turns on the lights on the arch but the lights pictured below do not. I have a second courtesy light switch on cockpit that turns red when the lights are powered but does nothing to the lights. Any idea where I can look or start looking?

Thanks...
Carlos

In my 2002 268 vista, those lights are what come on when I hit the cockpit light switch. I do not have lights in the arch

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Current:
2000 Sea Ray 380 Sundancer "still Livin the Dream"

Past
2002 268 Vista 5.7 GXI "Livin' the Dream"
1996 Rinker 192 Captiva. "The Simple Life"
1999 Yamaha XLL 1200 Waverunner.
1976 Mercury Marquis tri hull 120 hp

If you are pushing the Cockpit Lights rocker switch and that switch lights up showing power to the switch itself, have you checked the bulbs in the Cockpit Light fixtures just to make sure the bulbs are good and not blown?

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Current Boat
- 2001 Four Winns 328 Vista "Hour Decision"
- 2010 310 Mercury Inflatable

Previous Boats
- 30' Doral Prestancia
- 25' Doral Citation

I've chcked all the light bulbs. I have no power to the fixture. I also have 2 cockpit light switches that both light up when I turn lights on.

Since you have power at the switch, and no power at the fixture, you now know what to do.

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Jump across the switch and see if the lights come on. If so you know you have a bad switch.

On my boat there's also a switch in the cabin for the cockpit lights. Unless that's on, the cockpit switch does nothing.

My 2005 model has two switches, both switches control two lights - one light behind the entry door when coming aboard from the swim platform and one at the top of the companionway stairs. Your pictures look very similar.

One switch is on the swim platform entryway and the other switch is grouped with 3 other switches beside the companionway down below.

Both switches are capable of overriding the other.

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Ernie Follis
It'll Do II
Four Winns 348 (2005)

Correct, pull the rocker switch and make sure the fixture wires are hooked up to it because they can easily come loose.

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

How did you check the bulbs... multi meter?

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2004 - 288 Vista
Twin - 5.0 Volvo Penta GXi DP

Hi guys.. update. No power on sockets. Light bulbs good. Circuit breakers are all in. The switches light up and the arch lights courtesy light up but not the ones pictured above. Not sure where disconnect is or if there is another circuit breaker I may have missed..

Carlos

Carlos

I would pull both switches and create a wiring diagram from where you verify the wires go.... there should be a hot into a switch, something connecting the switches together (in house wiring we call these travelers) then a switchleg out to the light..... has to be a bad wire/connection from the switch to the first lamp (because nothing works) or the ground from the first lamp back to the source....

If you tried to read 12 volts at the lamp by checking the socket, maybe you have 12 volt hot, but not the ground.... read the hot and connect the other lead back to a known ground.... or use a continuity tester to read between the ground on the battery and the black at the socket....

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Current:
2000 Sea Ray 380 Sundancer "still Livin the Dream"

Past
2002 268 Vista 5.7 GXI "Livin' the Dream"
1996 Rinker 192 Captiva. "The Simple Life"
1999 Yamaha XLL 1200 Waverunner.
1976 Mercury Marquis tri hull 120 hp