After reading Captain Ken's July 29 topic and Unicorn's sage advice about checking the rectifier, I decided to check mine. Guess what? It's no good. I checked my voltages when running and not and had the same voltage readings. Since I only run a small garden tractor battery (so as not to sink my boat) I was concerned about charging. I would charge the battery with a trickle charger after every time out. Thanks to Unicorn's advice, I tested my rectifier/regulator according to the manual and found out it was bad so I'm ordering a new one. Evidently, when it fails, the stator supplies power to run the motor but does not charge the battery so any cranking, radio playing, depth finders, etc. are slowly running down the battery.<br /><br />I wonder how many others are going about their merry way 
, happily running their boats everywhere all the while they are getting closer to that fatefull day they are miles offshore, go to start the motor and click, click...nothing .
, happily running their boats everywhere all the while they are getting closer to that fatefull day they are miles offshore, go to start the motor and click, click...nothing .