will the hatch work/

rasbury · February 2018

When the electrical is disconnected from the motor will the hatch still work or is everything grounded through the motor?

LaRea · February 2018

Yes, it should work. It's grounded to the battery.

Danish_FV270 · February 2018

It do not work. The switch for the hatch is powered thru the multipowercord from the engine.

davidbrooks · February 2018

I think you are going to have to test it yourself. When they pulled out my engines they disconnected the hatch and flipped it all the way back. I redid a lot of the wiring while i had the engines out and replaced all the wire looms, painted etc... So i was raising and lowering my engine hatch all the time. In order to get mine to work i actually had to connect both engine grounds together. I just temporarily bolted them together. Taped up the red wires first. So while it may or may not work, it is easy to remedy. Worst case scenario is that you may have to temporarily run a ground back to the battery.

Ian · February 2018

I don’t disconnect but turn the selector switches to off. When off, no hatch drive.

rasbury · February 2018

Thanks.....guess I will figure it out!

Liberty44140 · February 2018

I vote yes it will work with shore power plugged in and battery charger switch on. Time will tell....

MarkB · February 2018

Can't remember if the hatch is on the house circuit or crank battery. I think house. I know there was a ground block right beside the battery, tied to the negative terminal on my boat. So I'd think it should work.

In case it doesn't do you have the by-pass terminals (poles) on your 12V panel where your battery switch is?

rasbury · February 2018

Yes, I do have the bypass...

rasbury · February 2018

But doesn't that only work as an up?

raybo3 · February 2018

rasbury said:

But doesn't that only work as an up?

No it will go both ways. Just reverse polarity with the jump pack and bingo.....

Msquared · February 2018

Can i use my jump starter the same way?

LaRea · February 2018

raybo3 said:
No it will go both ways. Just reverse polarity with the jump pack and bingo.....

... on most boats. Not all. Mine is up-only. But it will go up/down from the battery charger when connected to shore power, even if all batteries are disconnected.

rasbury · February 2018

Wow, in my feeble mind that makes no sense...the battery charger can run the whole boat via shore power?

rasbury · February 2018

At least it sounds probable one way or another, it will work....thanks, will re post in a week or so..

zaverin1 · February 2018

Ras you will have to disconnect the deck mount from the ram to tilt it all the way back.
so why not raise/ lower it manually?

rasbury · February 2018

That thing is pretty awkward to handle- I want to close it all the way so my cover snaps . We will see! May have to.

zaverin1 · February 2018

You can use the cherry picker to support during lifting and lowering

rasbury · February 2018

I'm going to a marina with an overhead lift to yank it out....at least if they drop it, it's on them and probably will charge me a hundred bucks so worth it.

LaRea · February 2018

With all battery positive leads disconnected, both battery switches on, and battery charger on - all systems work including hatch lift. (On my boat. Your mileage may vary.)

When I connect a jump box to the hatch terminals, it will raise the hatch. If I reverse the leads, it does nothing.

rasbury · February 2018

We will see what a 270 does here shortly...

rasbury · February 2018

With shore power on, all the batteries disconnected and all the engine wiring disconnected, the hatch works. Motor is ready to come out!

Handymans342 · February 2018

Ras, what's it 2 years now and no boating??

rasbury · February 2018

No but almost 1 year! Hey, I can only do what I can do...been a tuff year.

Ian · February 2018

Just tested on our 2003 3210: With all off, no hatch. House on, no hatch, starboard on, hatch works up and down.

rasbury · February 2018

It looked like with shore power everything on the helm would work...lights in the cabin and I heard the fridge on as well. No batteries connected at this point. Guess it would not have been a big deal but I did not want to wrestle the hatch with man power!

zaverin1 · February 2018

Oh you still need to wrestle it
disconnecting it and reconnecting

rasbury · February 2018

I hope I find a bridge crane tall enough without!

rasbury · February 2018

Or what ever you call it ..

zaverin1 · February 2018

You mean like a gantry lift.
you will
probably have to tilt the hatch near 90 to lift the engine out.
Remember it will have to go forward then up
and out

zaverin1 · February 2018

Also mark and watch the engine mounts when removing the engine

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