This is my first post, I have looked the forum over for help but no direct answer so here goes.
My Force motor runs good but recently seems to have stopped charging. If I charge the battery it will run for a while then just die and not start. It is draining the battery because the depth finder alarms for a dead battery. It does not generate enough electricity to keep itself running.
I have changed the rectifier hoping that it would be a cheap fix, but that did not help. I put a ohms meter on the 2 wires from the stator to the rectifer and it reads .7 to .8. I don't know what it should be I looked at the pdf at outboardignition.com and did not find any measurements to compare it too.
Is it possible that the stator could be bad if the engine is running? Also I replaced the battery with a new one, I have read that the battery should be a serviceable one. Mine has 2 covers each one covering 3 cells. It is a marine starting battery so I would think that is ok.
If you all think that the stator is good is it possible that a circuit breaker popped? Or maybe a bad battery cable? I would think that if either of those were true then it would not start.
Can I check the rest of the stator? If so what should my readings be?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Brian 'ThePCTech'
My Force motor runs good but recently seems to have stopped charging. If I charge the battery it will run for a while then just die and not start. It is draining the battery because the depth finder alarms for a dead battery. It does not generate enough electricity to keep itself running.
I have changed the rectifier hoping that it would be a cheap fix, but that did not help. I put a ohms meter on the 2 wires from the stator to the rectifer and it reads .7 to .8. I don't know what it should be I looked at the pdf at outboardignition.com and did not find any measurements to compare it too.
Is it possible that the stator could be bad if the engine is running? Also I replaced the battery with a new one, I have read that the battery should be a serviceable one. Mine has 2 covers each one covering 3 cells. It is a marine starting battery so I would think that is ok.
If you all think that the stator is good is it possible that a circuit breaker popped? Or maybe a bad battery cable? I would think that if either of those were true then it would not start.
Can I check the rest of the stator? If so what should my readings be?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
Brian 'ThePCTech'
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