Unknown circuit breaker

geeco1

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Can anyone tell me what this circuit breaker went to on my motor? It is on the port side of the engine. It has 3 red wires, but none are hooked to anything. They have been like this since I bought the boat, so I am curious as to what they might have originally gone to.

BTW, there is another one that looks identical, just below the electrical connection bar on the same side of the engine...and it is hooked-up.

Thanks,
 

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Benz Mondi

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Re: Unknown circuit breaker

It's the CB a trim and tilt system. Since you say it's not hooked up to anything, it would seem that your motor used to be with one at one time.

Al
 

geeco1

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Re: Unknown circuit breaker

I do have tilt and trim. So perhaps the PO took the circuit breaker out of the loop for some reason.
 

Benz Mondi

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Re: Unknown circuit breaker

Unless it's a spare for both the TNT and the motor itself just being stored there, it's likely the PO needed to get the system working and "temporarily" bypassed it until the PO could get another one and then forgot all about it. Or the PO was too cheap to get another one. Either way you should have a CB in your TNT system. The two red leads from the relays, that are now somehow directly connected to the red power pole, should be disconnected and joined together on the same end of the CB and the other end of the CB should then be connected to the red power pole not connected to the starter. This way you can power the TNT without having to turn your ignition key on. You'll notice that on the side of the CB you'll see a tab sticking out. That's the reset button in case it trips. I just installed a TNT on my boat so the wiring is fresh in my mind.

Make sure you disconnect the battery connection before you touch anything in there. There's lots of positive and negative poles next to each other that are unprotected (adding protection is on my things to do list). I installed one of those battery disconnect knobs (green knob/brass clamp) so it's now super easy to do... no excuses for not doing it.

I happen to drop a socket extender while I had the cover off and as luck would have it, the darn thing landed across opposite poles and gave off a loud spark and scared the hell out of me and my pocket book. I feared that I had just damaged a power pack, CDI or something expensive. Fortunately, everything was fine. Lesson learned.

Al
 

geeco1

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Re: Unknown circuit breaker

Thanks for the info. I'm getting ready to pull the engine to do some transom work. I'll have to look closer at the wiring when I start to put it back together.
 
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