96 gsx ruins family's 4th of July weekend LOL

[hackdaddy]

well, i've taken this blankety blankety apart connection by connection, no water in ignition box, no corrosion anyway, the battery is fully charged, I think ? all connections are snug and tight

fuses in ignition box are good don't know what to do next, we were heading 300 miles to lake chelan to party and play tomorrow morning for the weekend but the kids are all frowning.... and Dad "me" is the dumb guy....

my question is :

when checking the solenoid, do you touch a screwdriver to one screw and somehow make contact with the other....what is sposed to happen should it click if contact is made between two, if it does nothing "is that the problem"..

twenty four hours ago it was sitting in the driveway and would at least double beep when key was hooked

does the solenoid have anything to do with the "beep beep" that should take place once the key is on.....


sorry for my whining

thanks for listening.....

HELP

 

[timmyboy76]

hackdaddy.....better find the cure...alright, you need the 2 beeps. Clean post with soap/water, and lanyard key. The solenoid is where the 2 big red cables attach to, if click'n, jump those post, and if kicks, then solenoid is bad. With your car/truck...NOT RUNNING...hook cables to ski/boat battery and see what happens...:cheers:

 

[hackdaddy]

96 gsx and fun and games battery charge

hi again, well i'm hopefully on the road to some positive results....
the high end marine battery that we bought for 160 bucks 3 months ago is toast...i followed you're advice and went up to autozone and they said it was cooked even thought is showed full charge on my mickey mouse charger....

so i got a battery from the local seadoo dealer, i'm sposed to charge it over night and hopefully i'll get a beep beep...

i washed the lanyard, cleaned and tightened all connections and hopefully we hit the road tomorrow.....

i've been standing over this for the past 3 days....

i have this small schumacher charger from schucks....
it goes 0 2 4 6 8 10 12
should the needle be at 0 or 12 to show full charge..and how long should it take to charge a new battery
sorry for the long wind but rum and cokes just took over

 

[bama504]

I am no seadoo expert (yet) just got mine but already fixed three things and fixed my trailers to boot~!~ I am a good mech and I can tell you that the charger reads just like you judge women 0=no way 12= mega hottie if that helps.... It should take about 8-12 hours for a good charge~!~

Charger should be about 8-9 on the scale when charged~!~

 

[hackdaddy]

thanks BAMA charger might suk

i'm clueless but working my butt off and scratching my head trying to get the ski on the road.....

the battery is on the the charger and after 4 hours its reading in the zero range still...

im gonna think all night that this 49.00 schucks special "charger" ain't working or the dealer gave me a new piece of "junk" battery

 

[JPX]

Didn't see it on your list of "dones" - fuses?....in both the MPEM and ignition box?

 

[robin savell lloyd]

I do not know your charger for sure mine is a little different but it is the same brand as yours. Mine is only a 6 amp charger. I am guessing you have a 12 amp charger. When the battery is low on a charge and the battery is good the needle on the charger will show how many amps the battery is charging at. A fully charged battery will not show much of a reading on the charger. A bad or extreamly low battery will also start at a low charge on the charger and may increase on the amps that it will recieve but it may never show that it is fully charged and some times a bad baterry will just take high amps and never fall down to a lower charging. A good battery that has been ran down will start at a high charging rate as it becomes more charged the charging rate will lower till it is fully charged at that point it should be close to zero when reading the needle. you may have a couple of switches on the charger like 6 volt and 12 volts. There is probbly at least one more for 2 amp 6 amp and 12 amp charging. They may not be configured like this but probbly close. good luck Robin :cheers:

 

[kustomkarl]

Hackdaddy, It sounds like your problem might be your charger. The rating on the guage is as such. The charger allows a full 12 amps to flow to a dead battery. As the battery receives a charge it will drop down the scale. As it reaches "0" it is fully charged, as it will receive lesser amounts of amps as it is being charged. If you had this problem with the old battery the new battery will be better ...but the problem might in the charger no being able to charge the battery correctly. Let us know how you make out. With a poor battery nothing will work correctly. You need a good charged battery to make any progress.


Karl