Power to Trim Motor but no other power

[2002Rinker180]

I have a 2002 Rinker, 180 with a 4.3 mercury I/O. When I was using it this past weekend it was running good without any problems, but when I shut it down for a half hour it wouldn?t start up again. There was no power to anything except for the trim motor. I moved around the throttle thinking that it might not be fully in neutral but that didn?t do anything. I checked all of the in-line fuses that I could find but they were all in good shape. Currently it has no power to anything except to the trim motor which works fine. Any thoughts? Thanks.

 

[burp]

Re: Power to Trim Motor but no other power

The outdrive trim is usually wired directly to the battery. Did you check the square shaped 90 amp fuse at the starter?

 

[2002Rinker180]

Re: Power to Trim Motor but no other power

No I didn't, but I will check it out later today. Would that also prevent the boat from getting power to the accessories such as the blower, navigation lights, and radio? Thank you.

 

[indy440]

Re: Power to Trim Motor but no other power

I have a battery switch and if its shut off only my trim works.

 

[RickJ6956]

Re: Power to Trim Motor but no other power

Maybe this is a really obvious suggestion, but I speak from experience:

The trim motor was directly wired to battery #1. I was running the stereo all day on battery #2. Drained it. When the boat had no power, it took me fifteen minutes to realize that all I had to do was switch to batt #1.

 

[2002Rinker180]

Re: Power to Trim Motor but no other power

I only have one battery and I wasn?t running anything off of it when I shut it down for a half hour. It was running real good with shut-downs (short periods of time) and starts for around 2 hours prior to me shutting it down for a half hour. When I went to start it back up again there was nothing, no power to anything except to the trim motor.