Help!

[John Mcpartland]

We've been on the river all day, everything has been great but now we have no power. Both engines start but wont go over 2k rpm. Any ideas?

 

[veedubtek]

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[swatski]

Any you seeing any error codes? Did the alarm go off?
Over heating?
Are the pissers runnign, is the water coming out? is it boiling hot?
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[swatski]

Weird with both engines doing this...

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[John Mcpartland]

Pissers are working. Not hot. I have a check engine on the connex. Shut it down for about the 6th time now normal again

 

[Dixie Highway]

Battery voltage causing limp mode? Idk guessing a little bit, easy to check though.

 

[Bruce]

Whatever triggered the CEL had your boat in limp mode.

You need to figure our what caused that.

In the short term of the CEL comes back on disconnecting the battery cables from all batteries and touching them together may help to clear the code.

 

[swatski]

Battery voltage causing limp mode? Idk guessing a little bit, easy to check though.

I know that can happen in E-series, but I believe the non-E can run without a battery as logn as they start. I think. (that's one of the reasons why I bought one... I know the non-E engines can start and run without connext).

I would guess it may have been an overheat alarm? real or not?
the only time I experienced limp mode in both AR240 and SX190 (one each) was overheat. I ran in high idle to cool off and it went away.

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[John Mcpartland]

Weird with both engines doing this...

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Yes it was both engines. It was like it was in a saftey mode. I docked it at a boat ip restaurant, everything was fine, then started it back up and everything sounded normal. Pushed off and had no power. Full throttle was 2k rpm at 3mph

 

[swatski]

One way may be to shut the batteries off or disconnect positive terminals for a few minutes to clear the error?

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[0627Devildog]

One way may be to shut the batteries off or disconnect positive terminals for a few minutes to clear the error?

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It's threads like these that keep me from upgrading....

I was wondering if maybe you hit a patch of something and both impellers were fouled....Then realized it was likely a CPU error as I read on. Hope you got it sorted out.

 

[Bennie]

I've had that before on our 2015 242LS, once was excessive jelly fish stuck in the impellers. (Yeah I wasn't going to even try to clean that out)
Second time was right in the middle of a very busy ICW. I grabbed anchor, turned everything off, drank a beer, and she worked just fine afterwards.

Was there any excessive sea weed or any other debris at the marina? Have you checked your clean out plugs to make sure everything is clear and they're not dislodged for any reason.

 

[Julian]

I wonder if they have some sort of water flow/pressure sensor in the newer models, or is this just from temp increase that quickly from clogged pumps? I could see sitting in a river at a dock and picking up a bunch of debris if it was floating downstream......

 

[2kwik4u]

I wonder if they have some sort of water flow/pressure sensor in the newer models, or is this just from temp increase that quickly from clogged pumps? I could see sitting in a river at a dock and picking up a bunch of debris if it was floating downstream......

This happens every single time I dock on the Ohio. Have to clean out the jets, and once has to jump in, reach in, and clean off the strainer (had what looked like a gum wrapper sucked onto it).