NH-PC
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This is a Boat I just bought this year and have been working through numerous wiring issues successfully ? with a lot of help from here!. I thought I was in a good place, family coming Sunday, and I lost the ability to start the starboard engine and am stuck at the marina?
It looked like it was a bad starter solenoid, the one in the impossible to get to place between both engines. One side was battery power 12.8 V (in off) and the other zero( as it should be) but when you turn the ignition on will go to 6.5, Not 12.8? Doing more research it would be at 6.8 volts even with the ignition set to off . Obviously a problem. When trying to start vessel view would be lit up with all sorts of errors for low-voltage Voltage. 6.6 he's not going to get it going
One wood hatch frame support later, plus RAM removal, I changes a VERY badly corroded Starter Solenoid. Why would they put them here? Another story.. It looks like the solenoids got underwater and look like crap so I replaced the one that showed 6 V and now it shows no volts which is somewhat better but the system now shows dead.
I've already tried 2 starter solenoid relay so I know it's not that
As for digging. The relay with the button reset on the back the engine is fine, so are the four fuses on the back as well. Interestingly the starboard switch above the generator no longer shows red w the new selonoid. As an FYI when we were turn this engine on w the power wall main switch it would never click. The poor side always dead click. So maybe I had a problem here and the solenoid made it worse?
So here I am stuck in the water looking for some information to follow, I have four small wires coming off all four posts of the solenoid, besides the two large ones. can't find any wiring diagrams that show me what those do. I have a red that goes to the large batter cable that goes to the battery. A purple on the other large cable going to the started. On the ?S? wire I have brown/green on the left of the solenoid and Brown/black on the right side, the I cable?
This will be weekend too without the boat :-(. As the dealer here is very backed up
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve
It looked like it was a bad starter solenoid, the one in the impossible to get to place between both engines. One side was battery power 12.8 V (in off) and the other zero( as it should be) but when you turn the ignition on will go to 6.5, Not 12.8? Doing more research it would be at 6.8 volts even with the ignition set to off . Obviously a problem. When trying to start vessel view would be lit up with all sorts of errors for low-voltage Voltage. 6.6 he's not going to get it going
One wood hatch frame support later, plus RAM removal, I changes a VERY badly corroded Starter Solenoid. Why would they put them here? Another story.. It looks like the solenoids got underwater and look like crap so I replaced the one that showed 6 V and now it shows no volts which is somewhat better but the system now shows dead.
I've already tried 2 starter solenoid relay so I know it's not that
As for digging. The relay with the button reset on the back the engine is fine, so are the four fuses on the back as well. Interestingly the starboard switch above the generator no longer shows red w the new selonoid. As an FYI when we were turn this engine on w the power wall main switch it would never click. The poor side always dead click. So maybe I had a problem here and the solenoid made it worse?
So here I am stuck in the water looking for some information to follow, I have four small wires coming off all four posts of the solenoid, besides the two large ones. can't find any wiring diagrams that show me what those do. I have a red that goes to the large batter cable that goes to the battery. A purple on the other large cable going to the started. On the ?S? wire I have brown/green on the left of the solenoid and Brown/black on the right side, the I cable?
This will be weekend too without the boat :-(. As the dealer here is very backed up
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve