Boat Trouble

[Tro-Trout]

We thought we had everything worked out on the boat it'd been running good for a while but it wouldn't last. Today coming back home all my electronics go crazy all the warning sirens and lights flashing and gps went dead then the motor started losing power. So we stopped looked a few things over and tried it again got 5 mins of going 25rpm it happens again so we do the same and take off again this it runs fine all the way home.

Any idea what happened?

[reeltime]

sound like a short or bad connection at battery terimanals

[TIMG]

I go for bad connection. Voltage is probably dropping low as connection heating up.

[corndog]

Does it have a switch box or electronic ignition? I so make sure the negative wires are grounded. When it doesn't won't to run goos does it all of a sudden want to run fine like it jumps back to running perfect. If that it the case its a grounding issue. If when it runs bad it is real sluggish to get back to normal then it sound like a carburetor issue.

[Night Trout]

Had a simillar problem on my buddies boat. I would replace the batteries.

[Tro-Trout]

Im pretty sure now its the ground

[Tro-Trout]

Boats all fixed it was a bad ground! Thanks for all the info