Alarm coming from remote control

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seakingbob

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Today I was out in my boat and about one hour into the trip on alarm went off from the remote control.Does anyone know what this could be.The motor is a 40 hp with vro thats been disconnected. At least I thought it was all disconnected.Is this the vro alarm???
 
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Re: Alarm coming from remote control

It could also be an overheat alarm or low oil alarm. the overheat will give a continuous sound while the low oil will beep every couple of minutes. The olw oil sender has been known to short and sound an alarm continuosly.
 
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Re: Alarm coming from remote control

model #or year of motor. Which alarm? you've been here long enough to know to give all info.

J/E Alarms

low oil alarm is a beep every 30 seconds. beep......................beep...................

no oil alarm is a beep every 1/2 second or so.beep,beep,beep

overheat alarm is a constant beep.beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
 
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seakingbob

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Re: Alarm coming from remote control

model # E40ELCOB 1985 It went off in the remote control unit.It lasted about 1minute.I turned the motor off and it was still going off ,about another minute and it went out.
 
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