I did the joe reeves rectifier test and found my rectifier to be bad. I replaced it with one that tested good. Still not sure if I am charging. Is there a easy way to check stator.
I have went through the same thing, to check if your battery is getting charged. Check how many volts run from the battery to the solenoid, should be around 12.5 or so, then start the engine and it should increase to around 14.5 or so. This is the easiest way, I am sure there are some other wires to check for teh stator but this will let you know if the battery is charging. YOu should check my post, just search for green melting from stator.
hi patrick if the volts are the same as the battery voltage not running you are not chargeing some were on here there is a link to cdis trouble shooting
guide you will need proper meter to test also check the hundreds of no charging post they may show the link
good luck bennyb
Rectifier leads are: grey and yellow to 4, crossed to 3?; Yellow to 2, crossed to 1; red to 6 then red to battery? Rectifier is grounded by case and may have redundant ground to powerhead?
Stator leads are: Yellow to 1; Yellow and Gray to 3?
If it is the same then it is not charging. check for loose connections on the battery posts. And go through the stator check. Bad wiring may be blowing your rectifier if it was bad before and was good when you put the other one on. I would do another rectifier check and see if that one blew too.
I may of fixed it. After reading a lot on the charging systems in here. I read where my system is hard to read with just a volt gage. Anyway, I went to my omc manual looked at the wires closer and put them on the way the manual had them. I got this motor from some 20 yr old kid who liked to smoke pot and tinker with it. No telling what he done with it. He never had it running. the farthest he ever got was sitting in the boat and turning on the bow light. He was so pround that he got the light to work. Any way when I first start it the needle is just a hair past 12 then after a few it creeps up a few hairs past 12 at idle. i hope that means its charging.
If you're not reading 13.5 to 14.4 VDC at the battery terminals with the motor running it's NOT charging. A fully charged battery will read ~ 12.7 VDC at rest. You need to check for AC voltage at the correct wires from the stator, to verify you have over 20 VAC coming to the rectifier with the engine running.
