Hi, I have recently aquired a 96 or 97 speedster I dont know much about the boat, basically inherited it from a family member that had not used it for a few years and it that needed new batteries.
There are two pos and two neg cables. I connected one set to each battery but then I decided to get a manual.
I was looking at the electrical system diagram for the speedster and it indicates that both batteries are connected together with their neg terminal. ( Parallel connection?)
Then another black cable is connected to the left engine, another black cable is going to the electrical box. The other motor gets a red and black cable connected to the right motor/starter from the otherside of the electrical box (please see attached image.) I did not realize this was the method to connect the batteries, and dont know why the cable connecting the old batteries together on the negative terminals would be gone/missing. would this have caused any problems for the system?
thank you in advance for any help
There are two pos and two neg cables. I connected one set to each battery but then I decided to get a manual.
I was looking at the electrical system diagram for the speedster and it indicates that both batteries are connected together with their neg terminal. ( Parallel connection?)
Then another black cable is connected to the left engine, another black cable is going to the electrical box. The other motor gets a red and black cable connected to the right motor/starter from the otherside of the electrical box (please see attached image.) I did not realize this was the method to connect the batteries, and dont know why the cable connecting the old batteries together on the negative terminals would be gone/missing. would this have caused any problems for the system?
thank you in advance for any help