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Thanks to all... starter problem solved
On Jul 8, 9:15*am, W1TEF wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:10:28 -0300, "YukonBound" wrote: "W1TEF" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:59:27 -0300, "YukonBound" wrote: Thanks to some dogged investigating, I've solved my starter problem and all works well. I won't bore you with the details........ *but after 'the fix' was made, the starter jumped up and threw that flywheel around like a champ. So what was it? Ok.. since you asked... This solution was in the back of my mind from the start, but I didn't want to try anything for fear of causing problems. I was able to turn the bendix toothed gear by hand and one way it would raise up on a helix to the flywheel so I felt nothing was seized there. When I pressed the starter I noticed that the bexdix was spinning clockwise... same way as the flywheel did when I pulled on the cord. This didn't seem right so I took a closer look at how the Minn Kota prop spun when I put in in forward & reverse. You guessed it...the opposite way from what you would expect. I had assumed that the cables leading to the battery posts were like your normal 14-2 household wiring. That is..... black hot & white neutral. It was the opposite.... the white wire belonged on the + post and black on the - post. I couldn't remember how it was connected when I re-installed the battery ...and with a 50% chance of getting it right...i didn't. I'll mark or apply red tape to that white wire so I don't make that mistake again. I never thought of that. I will take the blame for that - I should have used red/black shrink wrap to designate hot and ground. *I just assumed that black is ground in most wiring schemes meaning that white would be hot - 12 Vdc what else could it be? *:) Glad you got it straight. *Hey, things happen right?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yep! and more often then one would think. |
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