Re: Charging problems with 200 Evinrude
have you gone to CDI's web site? check out their FAQ's on troubleshooting components, it very well could be rect/reg or the stator or both! a bad rect can blow out a stator, I believe the tach signal comes before the regulator but the reg is combined with the rectifier, i'm not sure if tach is using post rectified pulses, or direct from the stator either way the grey wire for the tach come from the rect/reg, the diodes in the rect are semicunductor typically diodes short across there PN juction (shorted doided) if they open it is because they have gone way beyond there power disapation rating and burn which would typically result in the dialectric epoxy the unit is filled with looking melted I would suspect the rect/reg would have been a hard fail because they are electronic components, the stator could be a progressive failure it is just coil windings, shorting out slowly, I would check the stator charging coils you can do a simple ohm check and compare it to CDI specs even though it may still be an OEM STATOR they have a doc on resistive readings of there units and OEM units On another note if your battery connections are loose or you have dead or weak cells and the rct/reg can't output what it needs to it can and will over heat and die! never run your engine without a battery or use a severly under charged battery, always use nuts(not wing nuts) on terminals!
