i fish my boat almost every weekend.....
had my motor, 07 zuke 250, going on 2 years now...
the 2 batteries i run jumped together, are probably a little over 3years old ..
went to the lake tonight for a little friday striper action after a long weeks work...
motor cranked fine but showed only about 12 to 13 volts , as opposed to the normal 14 it usually shows as i was idling away from the dock...
thought i might of left something on in the driveway that ran it down during the week and proceeded to get her up on plane...
volt meter started going nuts , swinging from 10 to 13 volts or so then the motor completley shut down.....oh crap.....
sat there a min then it fired right back up......
swung it back around to the dock and proceeded to undo all 4 battery cables and hit em with some sand paper since they had some minor corrosion on them...
turned the key over and it showed the normal 14 volts as usual....good deal.... lets go fishing.....
half a mile up the lake, same crap again....
limped back to the dock and tied up to try and sort some more stuff out....
the darn thing went from being able to fire back up at will, to absolutly nothing now when you turn the switch on.......it beeps like one weak beep then dead....
now when you hit the trim on the throttle it trims up or down for about 1 sec, the goes dead..............BUT WILL TRIM JUST FINE FROM THE TRIM SWITCH AT THE MOTOR....HMMMMMMM
just got home and put the primary battery on charge and its only showing like 50% charge........
this motor has started strong and fine for going on 2 years now and has always showed 14 volts on the suzuki volt meter...
it showed 13.8 on my furuno sounder tonight when it was wacking out????
can a pair of batterys that you use almost every weekend, go south that quick??
and if so, will it cause a zuke 250 to go nuts like it did on the volt meter, and completly fall on its face ,instead of just showing a gradual dropping of the volts over time??
tx for the help
had my motor, 07 zuke 250, going on 2 years now...
the 2 batteries i run jumped together, are probably a little over 3years old ..
went to the lake tonight for a little friday striper action after a long weeks work...
motor cranked fine but showed only about 12 to 13 volts , as opposed to the normal 14 it usually shows as i was idling away from the dock...
thought i might of left something on in the driveway that ran it down during the week and proceeded to get her up on plane...
volt meter started going nuts , swinging from 10 to 13 volts or so then the motor completley shut down.....oh crap.....
sat there a min then it fired right back up......
swung it back around to the dock and proceeded to undo all 4 battery cables and hit em with some sand paper since they had some minor corrosion on them...
turned the key over and it showed the normal 14 volts as usual....good deal.... lets go fishing.....
half a mile up the lake, same crap again....
limped back to the dock and tied up to try and sort some more stuff out....
the darn thing went from being able to fire back up at will, to absolutly nothing now when you turn the switch on.......it beeps like one weak beep then dead....
now when you hit the trim on the throttle it trims up or down for about 1 sec, the goes dead..............BUT WILL TRIM JUST FINE FROM THE TRIM SWITCH AT THE MOTOR....HMMMMMMM
just got home and put the primary battery on charge and its only showing like 50% charge........
this motor has started strong and fine for going on 2 years now and has always showed 14 volts on the suzuki volt meter...
it showed 13.8 on my furuno sounder tonight when it was wacking out????
can a pair of batterys that you use almost every weekend, go south that quick??
and if so, will it cause a zuke 250 to go nuts like it did on the volt meter, and completly fall on its face ,instead of just showing a gradual dropping of the volts over time??
tx for the help
