Yes, I'll make sure I note the results thought it may be awhile. This is only my second summer dealing with a boat. I went through this whole deal last year with low spark on all cylinders and resolved it with a new power pack. The troubleshoot system I'm using is from the CDI site that emdsapmgr referred to above. Basically, if you get to the point in the troubleshoot process of taking these measurements and haven't resolved the problem yet then these measurements will narrow whether its the stator, timer base, or power pack. The quick version is...if the numbers do not fall in range while the wires are connected to the pack, but do when measured again disconnected then the pack is the problem. If they are bad on the pack and still bad when measured disconnected...then the stator/timer base are the problem, whichever one the wires you are measuring are coming from. In my case above...I am getting bad to horrible results with the timer base wires whether they are connected or not...which tells me there is a problem with the timer base. I also ran resistance tests on the pack itself and pack to ground without the wires connected and got bad results which says the pack is bad too. The pack is only a year old...the fact that I blew one last year and now seem to have again within only about five trips since the new one kind of confirms too the test results that my timer base has a problem. A bad timer base can burn out a power pack, and a bad power pack can burn out a timer base...from my understanding. So the timer base being shot would explain why I have gone through two power packs in two years now. The stator I am really questioning because the voltage is in range, but it running at the far low end of the range constantly and I don't know if that is normal or not. The resistance is a little higher than the range...which to me "could" be what is pushing my voltage so low in its range. But I don't have the experience to know if this is normal, means it is bad, or means it may be going bad and I probably should start thinking about it soon or something. This is how I understand it...hoping to get confirmation of this and/or maybe some recommendations of things to look at before I decide I need to replace them...especially in regards to the timer base and stator. The power pack, I'm pretty sure, is done.
