First a beeping,stopped the engine,now totaly dead

[gordyboy35]

Hi Guys,
I've just bought a 5.2 rib with a 2000 Mariner 75hp & Quicksilver Throttle. We were on Loch Lomond trying her out,all was going fine until i heard a beeping from the remotes,we pulled into an island and thats when i noticed the beeping had stopped and i had lost the tilt,but the engine was still running.We returned to the slip at Balloch turned of ignition,tried to start the boat and got nothing ,no beep,nothing, Does any one have any ideas my problem?If it was'nt for Darryl Mayer from the Fife Powerboat Training Centre we would have been goofed , Cheers Guys and cant thank you enough. They managed to unscrew the hydraulic pressure relief screw under water and manually raised the engine.
Is there a return charge to the battery from these engines or do they just eventually go flat,sorry i sound such a plank but this is our first rib,boy oh boy do we all have the bug in this family.
Cheers Gordon.

[willk]

There'll be a motor-head along in a minute to sort you out - but meantime, have you checked the battery terminal connections and the battery isolator switch? Is the battery charged or flat now? Also, are the engine fuses OK?

No-brainers, I accept, but they've caught me out...

PS, welcome to RIBnet!

[Nos4r2]

It should charge the battery-but it'll carry on running if the battery connections fail.It should also start on an emergency rope start round the flywheel. Check the terminals and isolator as WillK said.

[willk]

Originally Posted by Nos4r2

Check the terminals and isolator as WillK said.

Oi!

There's a small "w" in willk, just like there's a big "M" in Motorhead!

....knew you'd be along

[Polwart]

The two most common reasons for beeping are either a cooling water problem or an oil issue. I think you should be able to tell the diffenence between a continuous (beeeeeeeeep) and an intermitent (beep beep beep) sound. I'd be surprised if either of these alarms directly affected the electrics unless something really bad and smokey had happened? But I could be wrong.

Depending on how sophisticated your engine is it may simply have a temp sensor or actually a water flow sensor as well. Likewise the oil could be simply the tank level is low or that the pump is not delivering oil.

[Bigmuz7]

Originally Posted by willk

Oi!

There's a small "w" in willk,

Aye .. nuff said

[willk]

Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

Aye .. nuff said

see yew Shooie, ay'll hey yew!

[PeterM]

How long between when you first started it to when the beeping stopped ? And then between that and you turning it off ?

I'm wondering if you have just totally drained the battery ?

I'd put money on dodgy electrics - either the battery giving up, the wiring not being 100% or its not charging for some reason ? (or a combination).....

[Nos4r2]

Originally Posted by PeterM

How long between when you first started it to when the beeping stopped ? And then between that and you turning it off ?

I'm wondering if you have just totally drained the battery ?

I'd put money on dodgy electrics - either the battery giving up, the wiring not being 100% or its not charging for some reason ? (or a combination).....

Or the battery coming disconnected upping the voltage in the control box to a point where it messed with the sensors.

Not heard of it before, but bad connectors can replicate all sorts of things.

[Nos4r2]

Originally Posted by Willk

Oi!

There's a small "w" in willk, just like there's a big "M" in Motorhead!

....knew you'd be along

It's a name, old bean. Names have a capital letter.