06 four Winns 190 Horizone looses power and trips breakers

[wyant]

06 four Winns 190 Horizone looses power and trips breakers

hello
this weekend i put my boat in the water and took off went about 100 yards and my boat shut down lost power (on dash) i found that it tripped the breaker on the motor and the little (push in breaker) on the dash. I reset (both of them) and when i turned the key on it kept tripping it (both) actually cranked up and ran for a Min before tripping them again. After about 5 min i was able to keep reseting both breakers and the boat started and ran like a champ for the rest of the day. The next day i took off went across the lake and after a full day of just sitting on the water i started the motor and headed back to shore, after about 10 min of running it did the same thing (tripped both breakers) I had to get pulled back. As i was almost to the dock i reset the breakers again and it cranked ran good. Now i havent ran the boat again because i dont want to get stranded. this sounds like something is getting hot but am looking for any advise.

I DO HAVE TWO BATTRIES ON THE BOAT AND (DO NOT) HAVE A ISOLATOR. I HAVE THEM HOOKED UP SO I CAN TURN THE AUX BATTERY ON OR OFF ONLY FOR WHEN I AM RUNNING THE Radio AMP AND MOTOR TO CHARGE. BASICALLY MY GROUND ON AUX BATTERY IS GOING TO GROUND ON MAIN BATTERY AND HOT ON AUX BATTERY IS GOING TO HOT ON MAIN BATTERY with a switch i can turn on or off. NOW THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE A EFFECT BECAUSE IT IS STILL 12 VOLTS BUT I AM STARTING TO WONDER IF IT IS OVER HEATING THE BREAKERS SOME HOW WITH BOTH BATTERIES is this possible???.

can anyone tell me what the little breaker is on the dash that is tripping. it is real small and when pushed in works good but when trips sticks out.

ANY IDEA?

 

[Poopie D]

Re: 06 four Winns 190 Horizone looses power and trips breakers

I had the same problem today in my Horizon 180, 2005. I would turn the key and after about 10 seconds the breaker would pop and the engine would die.

Had to get towed to shore!!!!

I think I fixed it though....I looked under the ignition and pushed all of the connectors tight...one of them was a little loose and Voila!

It appears that the loose wire was causing the ignition to short and in turn, was tripping the breaker. That short reproduced the same effect as if someone turned off the key and that is why my engine stopped.

I hope someone on this board can say that this could be an accurate scenario/resolution. I ran the boat in my driveway for 5 minutes with no problem after I believe I fixed it.

thanks!

 

[Fun Times]

Re: 06 four Winns 190 Horizone looses power and trips breakers

06 four Winns 190 Horizone looses power and trips breakers

hello
this weekend i put my boat in the water and took off went about 100 yards and my boat shut down lost power (on dash) i found that it tripped the breaker on the motor and the little (push in breaker) on the dash. I reset (both of them) and when i turned the key on it kept tripping it (both) actually cranked up and ran for a Min before tripping them again. After about 5 min i was able to keep reseting both breakers and the boat started and ran like a champ for the rest of the day. The next day i took off went across the lake and after a full day of just sitting on the water i started the motor and headed back to shore, after about 10 min of running it did the same thing (tripped both breakers) I had to get pulled back. As i was almost to the dock i reset the breakers again and it cranked ran good. Now i havent ran the boat again because i dont want to get stranded. this sounds like something is getting hot but am looking for any advise.

I DO HAVE TWO BATTRIES ON THE BOAT AND (DO NOT) HAVE A ISOLATOR. I HAVE THEM HOOKED UP SO I CAN TURN THE AUX BATTERY ON OR OFF ONLY FOR WHEN I AM RUNNING THE Radio AMP AND MOTOR TO CHARGE. BASICALLY MY GROUND ON AUX BATTERY IS GOING TO GROUND ON MAIN BATTERY. AND HOT ON AUX BATTERY IS GOING TO HOT ON MAIN BATTERY [With a switch i can turn on or off. [THIS will HAVE A EFFECT] I fixed this for you so you know what I am saying.can anyone tell me what the little breaker is on the dash that is tripping. it is real small and when pushed in works good but when trips sticks out.

ANY IDEA?

Did you hook up the too batteries to the batterie switch, Or did it come from four winns with the switch and you changed the wiring around??? It sounds like to me you have the batterie cables hooked up wrong and that would be the reason you keep blowing the too breakers, The too breakers are for the main IGN power for the engine and the power for the key at the dash, And if the wires are getting hot for any reason then that would trip the brakers. Normaly to trip them breakers you would have either a loose to a varry loose power or ground wire/cable some where either at the batterie, engine, or dash area or some where in between, or you have a cut in a wire some where and touching metal and shorting out some where, Or again hooked up wrong. The way we normaly would hook up a dual batterie system is by take a look at the back side or your batterie switch, you should see 3 post Batt 1, Batt 2 and commen as long as you have switch that says [off, 1, all, 2, if you don't and it only says [on and off] then you should get one that has 1, all, 2, And off, Then What you should do from the back of the switch is run a batterie cable from batt,1 too a batterie, Then run a second batterie cable from batt,2 too the second batterie, then run a thrid batterie cable from the common off the back side of the switch to the engine starter post, Then run all the extra accessories power wires you have to the common post of the switch. This way you can run your accessories off of either batterie 1 or 2 your choise when sitting in a cove and using the stereo, And then when it is time to start the engine you can go to the other batterie or ALL to start the engine, And then where ever you leave the switch while running the engine you will be charging that batterie or both if you have it on both [ALL]. The only thing you can not do at all with either the batterie system I am talking about or the system you have right now is you can never turn the batterie switch to off with the engine running or you will damage the charging system fast. The way you have the ground is ok, You can ground batterie to batterie as long as you have a good clean tight ground going to the engine from a batterie. And make sure all your batterie cables are varry tight and crimped good and tight at each end. But also you really should not run one batterie power cable over to the other power side of the batterie or you will have some problems like you are having. Well I hope this helps you out some good luck with it. Also I for got to say if you have a amp for the stereo then do not run the power wires of the Amp to the batterie switch, Hook them right to A Batterie, Then let that be your AUX batterie to run when the engine is off, So that the other batterie will get your engine started again to come home on. Also I found a wire diagram for you in this link.http://forums.iboats.com/showpost.php?p=2127575&postcount=7