Charging Question 08 Wake

[smallz]

Ok so let me apologize off the bat and say I'm a newbie to this forum and maintenance on ski's in general. I do a lot of work on jeeps but these are new beasts. I did try searching but couldn't find exactly what i needed. Ok so the issue! I replaced my battery after it died on the water the first time I went out this year. It was 3 years old so it was time. Everything was working great until yesterday I went out and rode the ski for several hours, everything was fine for several hours then it wouldn't start as crisply, then it didn't start at all. I brought it home and put it on the tender and this morning it started right up. I checked the voltage with a mulit-meter and it read 12+- (engine off) and with the engine idling it was 14.2+-. What gives??? It seams like it should be charging. I don't want to take it to the dealer tomorrow and have them tell me it needs $2mil in parts. Any help is appreciated thank you!

p.s. no 12v low warning at all.

 

[smallz]

Anything out here? Bump

 

[xdaily]

Sounds to me like a loose connection somewhere.

 

[Coastiejoe]

In many cases, there is more than just the two main wires that go to the battery. Make sure you didn't miss a smaller wire as it if often the feed wire that does the charging of the battery. My Polaris's ski's had 2 smaller red and 3 smaller black wires. My new Seadoo's have only the two main wires but about a foot down the wire there are smaller wires that branch off to the charging mechanism.

 

[smallz]

Ya I spent some time today going through the connections making sure they were all tight. Even checking the fuses for corrosion. Still nothing, I'm going to continue tomorrow.

 

[xdaily]

Tight and clean.