How does the ignition switch work, anyway?
Have a 2000 h410- separate banks for house (2 pairs of 6V golf cart batteries) and engine starting battery (basic group 27). My starter battery is getting pretty old, but it is charged by the solar panel, and doesn't need to do much, so I am trying to ignore it until the end of the season. So... I have found that with the starter battery pretty much dead (< 11 volts), I can still start the engine if I turn the key on and wait a while before pushing the start button. Am I correct in assuming that all the batteries are connected to the starter when I do this? If not, maybe my starter battery is not so dead, but I think it is. In that case, wouldn't it be a waste to bother putting in a bigger starting battery? I don't think it would solve the phantom yanmar starting problem. And, by the way, every once in a while the thing fails to energize, like everyone else's. I usually swear at it, which comes quite naturally at such times, and then it behaves. And also, by the way, the best piece of electrical equipment I have purchased is a little digital voltmeter on a cigarette lighter plug, about $10 at an auto store. I plug it in to a lighter receptacle on the pedestal, or at the nav station, as needed. S/V Breathless h 410 # 250 US 51855
