TSC wrote:

I hear ya, Rob, but I don't think I stated things clearly...

.... Back to the ballast resistor, I know what a ballast resistor from an
old
Dodge looks like, and I know what it does, but I cannot find one in the
wiring diagram or on the boat...

It could be inside the harness, or it could be a section of resistance
wire, or a ceramic block type between the terminal block(solenoid area)
& the coil.

Rob