PWH1
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2010
- Messages
- 78
Hi Gang,
A bit of history regarding my boat.
When I purchased my boat the tach was not functional. The gauges are standard OMC gauges - Fuel, MPH, Tach and Trim. I was lucky enough to find the identical tach from Great Lakes Marine. I purchased it and swapped out the old for the newer tach - all worked as expected...
This past week we were vactioning at a lake in Canada and I was taking my nephew for a tube ride - he's 6' 9" @ 300 lbs! The boat had no issue with hauling him around. However, I think the perfect set of circumstances took place that fried my tach and depth finder.
I dumped my nephew and he climbed back on the tube. As we were preparing to launch again a larger boat went by sending a decent wake our direction. I was trimmed up very little. When I hit it, my nephew was too far forward on the tube causing it to nose dive, at the time he came off, it unloaded the boat as the wake from the other boat was under mine. The engine screamed in protest and I immediatley went to neutral.
The net result was that my previoulsy functioning tach is now fried and stuck on 6,000 RPM. Additionally, my Depth finder will no longer identify the depth, but all other functions (MPH, TEMP, ect) all work as expected.
Did I fry both? Any thoughts or feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.
A bit of history regarding my boat.
When I purchased my boat the tach was not functional. The gauges are standard OMC gauges - Fuel, MPH, Tach and Trim. I was lucky enough to find the identical tach from Great Lakes Marine. I purchased it and swapped out the old for the newer tach - all worked as expected...
This past week we were vactioning at a lake in Canada and I was taking my nephew for a tube ride - he's 6' 9" @ 300 lbs! The boat had no issue with hauling him around. However, I think the perfect set of circumstances took place that fried my tach and depth finder.
I dumped my nephew and he climbed back on the tube. As we were preparing to launch again a larger boat went by sending a decent wake our direction. I was trimmed up very little. When I hit it, my nephew was too far forward on the tube causing it to nose dive, at the time he came off, it unloaded the boat as the wake from the other boat was under mine. The engine screamed in protest and I immediatley went to neutral.
The net result was that my previoulsy functioning tach is now fried and stuck on 6,000 RPM. Additionally, my Depth finder will no longer identify the depth, but all other functions (MPH, TEMP, ect) all work as expected.
Did I fry both? Any thoughts or feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.