Bruce, I suspect that in replacing the battery you missed connecting a negative wire to the battery. Take a look and see if you find another wire lying behind the battery that got overlooked. Tom Collins - Misty Sea On 1/20/2020 9:00 AM, trawlers-request@lists.trawlering.com wrote: > Send Trawlers-and-Trawlering mailing list submissions to > trawlers@lists.trawlering.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > trawlers-request@lists.trawlering.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > trawlers-owner@lists.trawlering.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Trawlers-and-Trawlering digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. I really need some help on a electrical problem (Bruce Creswell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:24:48 +0000 (UTC) > From: Bruce Creswell <brcdive@yahoo.com> > To: "trawlers@lists.trawlering.com" <trawlers@lists.trawlering.com> > Subject: T&T: I really need some help on a electrical problem > Message-ID: <170523763.1403629.1579537488112@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > I really need the groups to help. > > I have 3 battery house bank and 1 starting battery. Theengine would > not start on battery 1 (start battery). It would start on battery2 or > both. It would try to start on 1 but did not have enough juice to turn > itover but would try. I took the battery out and had it checked out. > The shop saidthat it was bad, looked like a bad cell. So I bought a > new one. > > I got backed to the boat and put the new one in.? Now it will not > start at all. Not in 1 or 2or both. > > The key switch is 4 positions. In acc. position theinstruments come > on. Then in off pos. everything is off. In the start position, > theinstruments and oil buzzer would come on. Push the key in and > everything goesoff. The instruments go off, the buzzer goes off. There > is no trying to start.Just dead like when you have it in gear. I check > the pilothouse gear shiftthen ran up to the flybridge. Both stations > are in neutral. Then I checked thetransmission shift linkage. It is > shifting in and out of Rev., Netru. andForward. > I think it might be the key switch.PS: My engine is a Ford Lehman SP 90 > > Help > > ? > > Bruce Creswell > > Mosquito Coast 1984 Nauticat 33 > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers_lists.trawlering.com > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-request@lists.trawlering.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE and > nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Trawlers-and-Trawlering Digest, Vol 209, Issue 18 > ********************************************************