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My wires going to the power packs are just red blue with no white stripe. My cdi staor has red blue and red blue with white stripe. Its like which plain red blue do i attatch white stripe from stator to? Im 95 percent sure i have it right but i figured some pros in here could tell me if it...
Can you hook up a stator backwards? If you switch the wires to coils would it affect anything? 175 mercury black max 2 stroke. High speed to high speed and low speed to low speed. Are they interchangeable as far as which pack the stator goes to as long as red is red blue is blue? A have...
Had a mechanic tell me too many grounds in one location can cause problems. Have you guys ever had issues with this? I have a weird electrical problem that eludes me but i do have about 6 things grounded on one post? Hmm
Its a rectifier i blew 2 last year. Im putting on my new one squaring the boat away but im trying to figure why they keep blowing. Everyone says bad ground but my grounds are tight so idk? I ordered a flywheel puller and im gonna try to learn how to read a multimeter and test everything. Stator...
Mercury sportjet f16 175 xr2
If the yellow stator bullet connectors were slightly loose woukd that cause rectifier failures? My grounds seem good. I put multimeter in bullet connectors to test ohms and i noticed a slightly loose connection if i put pressure upwards my meter would read 3.2 or...
It could have been the starter ground too. I put a cheapo amazon starter on it. The first one melted before starter and 2nd one after. The 2nd one went pretty quick maybe 3 trips. Then tach went loco.
