Well first off, I would like to say hello as I am a new member and I found this forum searching for a solution to my problem. I am a young college student with my own boat that has never given me a problem I couldnt find and fix within a day or 2. This one has been getting the best of me for over a week.
OK onto the prelude, the model number is e50esleus. I have not been able to find a service manual for run S only run R for this year so I'm not sure if there is a difference. The boat was put away for the winter running fine and when uncovered last week there was no spark. The coils are good as I have two seperate coil packs both working (replaced due to a faulty kill switch that I thought was a coil pack) and neither are getting spark.
I found some diagnostic procedures from CDI that are supposed to diagnose the problem. I went through what I could with what I had and came up with OHM readings within the range specified for rectifier and stator but my multimeter was not good enough to pick up the voltage spike from the stator. So i borrowed a friends better multimeter (Craftsman Professional) to do some further testing. According to the CDI I should have been getting voltages of around 125V, the meter was only picking up about 33V. this is between brown and brown/yellow. It then says to disconnect these wires and retest and it should jump to over 225. I did not want to tear apart the connection so I used paper clips and alligator clips to jump out. If readings are still low then replace stator. The readings were then 0 so I'm not sure if my method worked. Now I know an oscilloscope would be the perfect tool for this job however, they are expensive and I do not have one. Stators are also about 150-200 for this model so I don't want to buy one and still have no spark.
Does this sound like a stator problem? Could it be the timer base? I have not found a way to test that. Which one does the pulse for the spark come from? I was under the impression that a stator was for the charging system however that seems to be wrong based on the diagnostic procedures. Should I sand the stator to clean it up (like a magneto on a lawn mower)?
Sorry for the long ran but I tried to give all details on what ive done and what I'm seeing. All help is greatly appreciated in advance, and if any other details are necessary please let me know. I want to get out on the water as striper season has started!
OK onto the prelude, the model number is e50esleus. I have not been able to find a service manual for run S only run R for this year so I'm not sure if there is a difference. The boat was put away for the winter running fine and when uncovered last week there was no spark. The coils are good as I have two seperate coil packs both working (replaced due to a faulty kill switch that I thought was a coil pack) and neither are getting spark.
I found some diagnostic procedures from CDI that are supposed to diagnose the problem. I went through what I could with what I had and came up with OHM readings within the range specified for rectifier and stator but my multimeter was not good enough to pick up the voltage spike from the stator. So i borrowed a friends better multimeter (Craftsman Professional) to do some further testing. According to the CDI I should have been getting voltages of around 125V, the meter was only picking up about 33V. this is between brown and brown/yellow. It then says to disconnect these wires and retest and it should jump to over 225. I did not want to tear apart the connection so I used paper clips and alligator clips to jump out. If readings are still low then replace stator. The readings were then 0 so I'm not sure if my method worked. Now I know an oscilloscope would be the perfect tool for this job however, they are expensive and I do not have one. Stators are also about 150-200 for this model so I don't want to buy one and still have no spark.
Does this sound like a stator problem? Could it be the timer base? I have not found a way to test that. Which one does the pulse for the spark come from? I was under the impression that a stator was for the charging system however that seems to be wrong based on the diagnostic procedures. Should I sand the stator to clean it up (like a magneto on a lawn mower)?
Sorry for the long ran but I tried to give all details on what ive done and what I'm seeing. All help is greatly appreciated in advance, and if any other details are necessary please let me know. I want to get out on the water as striper season has started!
