samm835
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Dec 12, 2006
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- 575
I have always had Mercury or Mariner motor on my pontoon. All the controls and electronics are in my console(pontoon). This season I changed motors over to a Johnson (120hp) with a side control mount with side mount ignition. Everything is great with my new motor but I have one problem. Now that I have the new side mount, I do not have any power set up for my console which controls my radio, fuel gauge. I have the wire harness still (not currently) but I was wondering can I hook the red and black wires from the old harness directly to my battery to run these two components? I know the following about the attached pictures, two Brown(temp warning) RED (protected and unprotected from battery) GREY (tachometer) YELLOW (choke and starter soleniod) BLACK (grounds) PURPLE (ignition) GREEN and BLUE are for my (tilt/trim). I am wanting to mainly know.....Can I take the RED and BLACK wires all the way back to my batteries and tie in directly. By doing this I am hoping to get power to my electronics (fuel gauge) and Radio. Any suggestions would be helpful on how to handle. This wiring will not be used for anything other than power to panel. My motor is set up on a side control with ignition it.