This is a post I put in the Mercury section and was adised it may get a better response here.
Hello all, new here and your forum looks like it's full of helpfull people. I have a 90 mecury sportjet that is not charging. I have a manual and the stator tested fine. The regulator had a broken wire and just plain looked bad. I ordered the Mallory replacement part number 9-17101 through I Boats and it came with no instructions / wiring diagram. The new mallory unit had an extra wire (red) than the original. Both had a grey wire, 2 yellow wires and a red wire with the same bullet connectors as the original. I pluged everything up except the extra red wire with the oposite (male v female) bullet connector and it still does not charge. I also see that the ignition box has an extra red wire that is not connected to anything but does match up connector wise with the extra wire on the mallory unit. But it has a tag saying not to hook it up to battery voltage and to see instructions to determine if it needs to be used for anything.
My questions are should it work without hooking up the extra red wire from the Mallory unit? Do they need to be hooked up together? Does the Mallory extra wire need to be hooked up to battery voltage?
Any advise is appreciated. I have called a few boat shops with no response and I called Mallory's tech line and the guy did not know and said they would get back to me. I don't want to risk damaging the new unit or ignition parts by hooking something up incorrectly.
Thanks
Hello all, new here and your forum looks like it's full of helpfull people. I have a 90 mecury sportjet that is not charging. I have a manual and the stator tested fine. The regulator had a broken wire and just plain looked bad. I ordered the Mallory replacement part number 9-17101 through I Boats and it came with no instructions / wiring diagram. The new mallory unit had an extra wire (red) than the original. Both had a grey wire, 2 yellow wires and a red wire with the same bullet connectors as the original. I pluged everything up except the extra red wire with the oposite (male v female) bullet connector and it still does not charge. I also see that the ignition box has an extra red wire that is not connected to anything but does match up connector wise with the extra wire on the mallory unit. But it has a tag saying not to hook it up to battery voltage and to see instructions to determine if it needs to be used for anything.
My questions are should it work without hooking up the extra red wire from the Mallory unit? Do they need to be hooked up together? Does the Mallory extra wire need to be hooked up to battery voltage?
Any advise is appreciated. I have called a few boat shops with no response and I called Mallory's tech line and the guy did not know and said they would get back to me. I don't want to risk damaging the new unit or ignition parts by hooking something up incorrectly.
Thanks
