Wont turn over. Battery good, engine cranks, trim works, but no electrical power to anything else.

lomogda · April 2015

Hello all! looking for some help if anybody has come across this. we have a 2011 186BR I/O 3.0 liter. after this cold winter if finally uncovered our fun vessel but couldn't get it started. the boat only has 55 hours. and i had the battery checked out a few weeks ago. the puzzeling part is that the trim works fine, the engine turns over, but no electrical power to anything else. i mean no power to anything (radio, nav lights, bilge, blower, etc.)

i'm 99.9% sure i have the cables and other wires hooked up correctly. any suggestions?
thanks friends.

Capt Ron · April 2015

Check your wiring again, you might of left a ground cable off... everybody has done this at one time or another.

Dream_Inn · April 2015

Yeah, if battery was checked, probably removed for check, definitely look at cables. Not sure if there would be any separate battery switches that would cause that. For a larger boat, I'd say check your house batteries, but you don't have that. Maybe breakers? Do you have a separate breaker panel?