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[Butler Chain]

We just pulled our boat out to clean it out for the season and going to take it out tomorrow. We hooked up the hose like usual to start it up and make sure that everything was working correctly. We hooked a battery pack up to it since the battery was dead from not being used for quite awhile. The boat started right up and everything was running fine. As soon as we unhooked the cables from the battery terminals the oil light came on and the alert horn started. I checked the manual and first thing it said was to check for overheating but we let it run and it didn't seem like anything was heating up. I checked all the wires I could and nothing seemed loose. There is oil in both tanks, and we even tried changing the fuse. Nothing is working. Please help!!

[igneous]

Charge the battery fully then check voltage under load to make sure it has 12 volts. The merc. Sportjets require exact voltage to run smoothly. I'm assuming you have a merc engine.

[mcleod]

He is right, You really need a fully charged batterie to have those boat run well!

So charge the batterie at low amp for a long period or change it


You better charge it out of the boat, or at least, keep the kill-switch to off so you dont put 14-15volt on the entire circuit of the boat.