I pulled the stupid today. Was putting my batteries back in my boat after charging them. '92 Rinker Captiva 206 with a Mercruiser 4.3LX. I put one battery in and wired everything up. Then I got a phone call that was a little irritating and lost my focus. Went back to what I was doing and wired up the second battery but I wasn't focusing so I reversed the polarity.
I've got a "dumb" Perko battery selector (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pEcrpU3WL._SX522_.jpg) so there was no connection on the battery as I screwed down the terminals. After finishing I popped the selector to "All" and made the connections live, one battery wired correctly, one wired in reverse. A little pop spark and smoke and I shut the thing off within 2 seconds.
How screwed am I? I'm pretty new to boats as I just bought this as a beater starter boat 2 years ago. I was already planning to possibly replace the starter or starter solenoid because it was having some rough starts from cold when I was last using it.
I rewired the batteries and plugged everything back in to see if everything was totally fried. I was relieved a bit when the audio system and speakers seemed to running perfectly, (had the boat at storage so I didn't have any ability to try starting it up), but then it dawned on me that the audio system is rigged up with it's own disconnect switch that was engaged when I had the batteries reversed so the system wouldn't have been hit with the reverse polarity.
Any advice? Was I likely saved by a fuse somewhere that I will need to change or is my starter solenoid and alternator going to be fried?
I've got a "dumb" Perko battery selector (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pEcrpU3WL._SX522_.jpg) so there was no connection on the battery as I screwed down the terminals. After finishing I popped the selector to "All" and made the connections live, one battery wired correctly, one wired in reverse. A little pop spark and smoke and I shut the thing off within 2 seconds.
How screwed am I? I'm pretty new to boats as I just bought this as a beater starter boat 2 years ago. I was already planning to possibly replace the starter or starter solenoid because it was having some rough starts from cold when I was last using it.
I rewired the batteries and plugged everything back in to see if everything was totally fried. I was relieved a bit when the audio system and speakers seemed to running perfectly, (had the boat at storage so I didn't have any ability to try starting it up), but then it dawned on me that the audio system is rigged up with it's own disconnect switch that was engaged when I had the batteries reversed so the system wouldn't have been hit with the reverse polarity.
Any advice? Was I likely saved by a fuse somewhere that I will need to change or is my starter solenoid and alternator going to be fried?
