WFO Speedracer
A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
- Location
- Alabama
Each year I wonder when crazy season will start , this year that day is today .
This morning I get a text from a longtime customer with a GTX RFI , I installed a electronic flow control valve on his ski last year because the inner crankshaft seals are bad, apparently that fix worked well and I never heard back from him last year. Today he texts me saying the ski won't do anything is there something that he has to rest on it .
No , there isn't , is the battery charged I asked , Seadoos have a parasitic draw on the battery, if you leave it hooked up and don't use it for a month it will be completely dead.
Well then as Paul Harvey used to say I got the rest of the story, apparently he didn't winterize the ski, he also didn't disconnect the battery , first two mistakes , then he tried to charge the battery and quite possibly either hooked it up backwards or charged it up backwards.
Most people don't know this but if you completely run a battery dead it will accept a reverse charge, the positive will become negative, negative becomes positive so either mistake number three or possibly four.
Then he makes the really bad decides to put a jump box on it , mistake number five , if you have any sense whatsoever you will not jump off your Seadoo , major electrical issues can and will ensue if you do it wrong just once , yeah you might get lucky and you might get away with it many times or you might not, when you don't get away with it that's when I come into the picture .
He shorted out the jump box possibly either because the battery was charged up backwards or he hooked it up backwards , he might get lucky and have just melted a fuse , I don't know yet because I am diagnosing this over the phone thus far.
This morning I get a text from a longtime customer with a GTX RFI , I installed a electronic flow control valve on his ski last year because the inner crankshaft seals are bad, apparently that fix worked well and I never heard back from him last year. Today he texts me saying the ski won't do anything is there something that he has to rest on it .
No , there isn't , is the battery charged I asked , Seadoos have a parasitic draw on the battery, if you leave it hooked up and don't use it for a month it will be completely dead.
Well then as Paul Harvey used to say I got the rest of the story, apparently he didn't winterize the ski, he also didn't disconnect the battery , first two mistakes , then he tried to charge the battery and quite possibly either hooked it up backwards or charged it up backwards.
Most people don't know this but if you completely run a battery dead it will accept a reverse charge, the positive will become negative, negative becomes positive so either mistake number three or possibly four.
Then he makes the really bad decides to put a jump box on it , mistake number five , if you have any sense whatsoever you will not jump off your Seadoo , major electrical issues can and will ensue if you do it wrong just once , yeah you might get lucky and you might get away with it many times or you might not, when you don't get away with it that's when I come into the picture .
He shorted out the jump box possibly either because the battery was charged up backwards or he hooked it up backwards , he might get lucky and have just melted a fuse , I don't know yet because I am diagnosing this over the phone thus far.
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