Need help wake 155

[Myseedoo]

Was trying to jump start my wake 155 and after a few cranks lost all power to the console. No beeps no led, nothing.. what could of gone wrong.

 

[skiasylum]

Operators manual advises anything to do with battery, take it to a dealer. That is a good clue that you need a service manual to mess with anything electrical on your ski. The service manual warns that you should never jump or even charge the battery while it’s in the ski. Bad things are sure to happen when you try to jump start the ski. The worst you blew up your ECM the best maybe just a fuse. If you want to continue on your own download a service manual if not take it to a dealer and hope for the best.

 

[Myseedoo]

Operators manual advises anything to do with battery, take it to a dealer. That is a good clue that you need a service manual to mess with anything electrical on your ski. The service manual warns that you should never jump or even charge the battery while it’s in the ski. Bad things are sure to happen when you try to jump start the ski. The worst you blew up your ECM the best maybe just a fuse. If you want to continue on your own download a service manual if not take it to a dealer and hope for the best.

Okay first of all every car, motorcycle, jet ski, lawn mower, backhoe, and airplane manufacturer out there prints that in their manuals, it's a disclaimer you and I both know that. You're not helpful reply is a clue that you work for a dealership but my dealership is 100 miles away. So back to the subject is there a specific in-line protection fuse or inline circuit breaker that might have tripped that may have been a result of us trying to jump-start this is stranded jet ski.

Operators manual advises anything to do with battery, take it to a dealer. That is a good clue that you need a service manual to mess with anything electrical on your ski. The service manual warns that you should never jump or even charge the battery while it’s in the ski. Bad things are sure to happen when you try to jump start the ski. The worst you blew up your ECM the best maybe just a fuse. If you want to continue on your own download a service manual if not take it to a dealer and hope for the best.

 

[Myseedoo]

[QUOTE="Myseedoo, post: 619845, member: 102381" . First of all every car, motorcycle, jet ski, lawn mower, backhoe, and airplane manufacturer out there prints that in their manuals, it's a disclaimer you and I both know that. Second of all I have 2-wake 155's, 2- RXP's and a wake 230 and all of them have been jump-started or used to jumpstart at least 10 times each and with no issues. You're not so helpful reply lol is a clue that you work for a dealership 'but thanks for the input' my dealership is over a 100 miles away so I'm trying to troubleshoot this issue before I load it onto a trailer and haul it to its maker. So back to the subject, is there a specific in-line protection fuse or inline circuit breaker that might have tripped as a result of us trying to jump-start this is stranded jet ski. Thanks [/QUOTE]

 

[skiasylum]

It’s very hard to tell from just your first post how much mechanical ability you have so I just assumed you had very little since you were trying to jump start a jet ski. My mistake.

 

[Ed Dozois]

[QUOTE="Myseedoo, post: 619845, member: 102381" . First of all every car, motorcycle, jet ski, lawn mower, backhoe, and airplane manufacturer out there prints that in their manuals, it's a disclaimer you and I both know that. Second of all I have 2-wake 155's, 2- RXP's and a wake 230 and all of them have been jump-started or used to jumpstart at least 10 times each and with no issues. You're not so helpful reply lol is a clue that you work for a dealership 'but thanks for the input' my dealership is over a 100 miles away so I'm trying to troubleshoot this issue before I load it onto a trailer and haul it to its maker. So back to the subject, is there a specific in-line protection fuse or inline circuit breaker that might have tripped as a result of us trying to jump-start this is stranded jet ski. Thanks

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This is not a disclaimer you will have consequences jump starting skis if forwhatever reason you havent yet , consider yourself lucky

 

[Myseedoo]

It’s very hard to tell from just your first post how much mechanical ability you have so I just assumed you had very little since you were trying to jump start a jet ski. My mistake.

No worries, but any help on the matter would be very much appreciated

 

[benjilafouine]

No more power at all, no more beeps, no more console is certainly cause for big concern. I'd say something blew during the jump start. These skis seem very fragile on that aspect (not like a lawnmower). I am afraid you may have damaged the ECM. Check your battery thoroughly (it must have had issues in the first place if you tried to jump start it).

Some power packs are smaller than others and less harmful but these skis have small batteries compared to cars and they have lots of fragile electronics. As for charging a battery, I do charge my old ski with the battery connected once in a while but I never go more than 1.5 amp (never did it on my new ski, only on my old 2-stroke but I would probably disconnect the battery on my 4-stroke, at least the red cable).

As for fuses, I do not know the model of ski that you have.

 

[Myseedoo]

No more power at all, no more beeps, no more console is certainly cause for big concern. I'd say something blew during the jump start. These skis seem very fragile on that aspect (not like a lawnmower). I am afraid you may have damaged the ECM. Check your battery thoroughly (it must have had issues in the first place if you tried to jump start it).

Some power packs are smaller than others and less harmful but these skis have small batteries compared to cars and they have lots of fragile electronics. As for charging a battery, I do charge my old ski with the battery connected once in a while but I never go more than 1.5 amp (never did it on my new ski, only on my old 2-stroke but I would probably disconnect the battery on my 4-stroke, at least the red cable).

As for fuses, I do not know the model of ski that you have.

The more I troubleshoot and read up in reference to my electrical issue

No more power at all, no more beeps, no more console is certainly cause for big concern. I'd say something blew during the jump start. These skis seem very fragile on that aspect (not like a lawnmower). I am afraid you may have damaged the ECM. Check your battery thoroughly (it must have had issues in the first place if you tried to jump start it).

Some power packs are smaller than others and less harmful but these skis have small batteries compared to cars and they have lots of fragile electronics. As for charging a battery, I do charge my old ski with the battery connected once in a while but I never go more than 1.5 amp (never did it on my new ski, only on my old 2-stroke but I would probably disconnect the battery on my 4-stroke, at least the red cable).

As for fuses, I do not know the model of ski that you have.

You are probably right because the more I research my watercrafts electrical issue the more Im learning how delicate their electrical systems actually are. No more jump starting lol.... I will keep searching for a solution and keep everybody posted. Thanks

 

[Myseedoo]

Well, no luck troubleshooting. We're going to haul it to a dealership to have it repaired or possibly trade it in but I'll let everybody know what part of the electrical system got fried.

 

[Sportster-2001-951C-Stock]

Yep, not surprised jump starting a seadoo resulted in something fried, that's one of the "don't do this in case of it's a seadoo" things, they're very sensitive to over voltage.

It's quite true if the voltage of the device (such as battery charger or vehicle) donating the jump start is beyond 14.4 Volts even for an instant (this is not uncommon), there's a high risk of damaging the MPEM.

 

[ski-d00]

What year wake 155? The electrical systems changed quite a bit in 2006.

If you have jump started all your skis 10 times you've been really fortunate. There are 2 inline 30A fuses separate from the fuse box near the solenoid. Check those first.