2012 50' Hunter - where is the bow thruster fuse?

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gr8lakes

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Sep 15, 2024
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Hunter 50 ft Rochester
Help: 50' 2012 Hunter - where is the bow thruster fuse?

I don't have power to the bow thruster - is it a fuse or is there some other common issue on these.

Grateful for any assistance.
 
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MFD

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Jun 23, 2016
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Hunter 41DS Pacific NW USA
Not sure what you mean by 'power', there is often a 'black box' or 'brain' electric module involved as well.
I have a 2009 41DS, not a 2012 50, but at the end of the day the thruster is going to be a 3rd party item like from Lewmar or something.
Have you traced 12 volt power for the control circuits and the main power circuits and such up at the thruster unit itself before presuming it is a fuse issue?
 
sailme88

sailme88

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Jan 19, 2010
1,290
Catalina 34 Casco Bay
On occasion seaweed will wrap on our prop. Simply sailing thru it can cause it to attach. Could be the same thing with a thruster. A visual inspection might be in order..
 
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Georgedoyle

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Dec 15, 2019
159
Hunter 49 San Diego
On our 49, there is an on off switch near the batteries. Pull up the floor boards near the salon table. You should be able to see it. There might be a fuse there as well. I can’t recall. Check it. Also, there is a thermal overload switch on the thruster. We tripped ours once when we overused it. It came back on again when the unit cooled down. There also might be a reset button on the thruster under the forward cabin bed. Again, I don’t remember how it all went down, but we definitely did not have to replace a fuse.
 
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artboas

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Jun 1, 2009
1,836
Hunter 49 toronto
gr8lakes said:
Help: 50' 2012 Hunter - where is the bow thruster fuse?

I don't have power to the bow thruster - is it a fuse or is there some other common issue on these.

Grateful for any assistance.
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Under the floor just aft of the main salon table,
I don’t think your fuse is blown. There are BEP auto battery switches . One of them is for the thruster
There is a switch on top with 3 positions
Off, auto, on
It is normally in the auto position, which activates when the boat battery switch turns on
Here is the possibly bad news
The electronic circuit in these switches do fail.
There is no easy replacement for this switch
You have 2 choices :
Turn the switch to on, which bypasses the auto function
Or,,, remove the switch, and replace with a power post, which connects the lugs together.
 
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