Recent content by Toms River Sea Ray

I switched the charging wire from the engine battery to the house battery and it cleared everything up. The alternator is charging the engine battery properly now. Thank you everyone for your tips and pointers. Boats have become really complicated lol

The engine battery is getting a good charge from shore power. The house battery isn't getting anything from the charger. The charger can handle 3 batteries so I relocated the known good terminal (#2) to the house battery and slid the engine battery to a new terminal (#1) and had the same result...

That's a good idea.

I have construction equipment that sits for months and fires right up lol. I agree theres something drawing power but what is frustrating is the battery charger is not charging it and I don't think the alternator is either. I was pulling 14 volts from the alternator at 1500 rpm but everything...

Newby and I am stumped... Last week we purchased a 2016 280 SLX. The sea trial and survey went well. The day we closed on the boat the house battery was dead and the boat wouldn't start even though the boat was on shore power over night. We (MarineMax) installed a new battery and she started...

I have a 2016 280 SLX that the batteries aren't charging on shore power. What switched did they replace on your boat?