Short story: I accidentally left the pathmaker in the "off" position for a few months. This essentially cuts off charging the house batteries on shore power.
There is longer version of this story where it starts with "Tried to start the boat and all I got was click click RRR click, followed by voltmeters, jumper cables, hitting the solenoid with a hammer, etc...".
Anyway when I turned the pathmaker "on" (lights went green) the engine immediately started, and the starting battery was now getting a charge.
New symptom: Now the pathmaker makes an "ehhhh" sound, and feels like it is vibrating. When I put my fingers on the solenoid, it almost feels like a 60 cycle hum. I turned it back "off" and went home. Maybe this is caused by lots of NEW current flowing through the contacts (charging the starting battery)... Not sure.
I fiddled with turning the three adjustments back and forth, but not of them seemed to change the status of the unit.
Is this normal? Should I just leave it "on" and will it magically turn back into the normal thumps and clumps vs "ehhhh"? Thanks!
There is longer version of this story where it starts with "Tried to start the boat and all I got was click click RRR click, followed by voltmeters, jumper cables, hitting the solenoid with a hammer, etc...".
Anyway when I turned the pathmaker "on" (lights went green) the engine immediately started, and the starting battery was now getting a charge.
New symptom: Now the pathmaker makes an "ehhhh" sound, and feels like it is vibrating. When I put my fingers on the solenoid, it almost feels like a 60 cycle hum. I turned it back "off" and went home. Maybe this is caused by lots of NEW current flowing through the contacts (charging the starting battery)... Not sure.
I fiddled with turning the three adjustments back and forth, but not of them seemed to change the status of the unit.
Is this normal? Should I just leave it "on" and will it magically turn back into the normal thumps and clumps vs "ehhhh"? Thanks!