Rich Hargis
Petty Officer 2nd Class
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- Oct 20, 2005
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I recently sold my Wellcraft with a Zuke DF 200 to a friend of mine, it was time to change out the batteries so he bought 2 high quality marine batteries. With the engine running on the hose for a few minutes the SMIS gauges both say "Low Battery Voltage" and kills the engine. Did a search and found a few comments on checking the white wire from the main harness. The connecter at the battery looked to be corroded so we cut the wire back and put on a new eyelet. Another thing that was strange is that the temp gauge was reading higher than normal temps so we shut it down, the alarm never went off so we checked the heads with an infrared thermometer and found that it was still in the safe range. Started the motor up and watched the temp gauge go to 215 while the infrared said 150-160, after about 10 minutes we thought we had fixed the problem because she kept running.So we decided to go ahead and reconfigure the gauges to see if that would clear up the temp issues but then the motor quit with the Low Battery Voltage alarm again. Impeller was changed out a month ago and now we are going to change out the thermostats just for piece of mind. Any ideas why this is happening now? I never had any issues with this motor and now this popped up.
BTW: Batteries read 12.7 volts with motor not running and 14.8 when running checked at batteries with a voltmeter.
Thanks for any input. Rich
BTW: Batteries read 12.7 volts with motor not running and 14.8 when running checked at batteries with a voltmeter.
Thanks for any input. Rich