I have a just bought an evinrude elan 3 cylinder 35hp outboard, can anyone tell me if it is negative or positive earth/ground..?

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doggie said...

Just a guess, they are normally negative but I dont know that motor well.

But are you positive?

A cheap $20 digital multimeter is an even better friend. With the motor running touch the red probe to what you think is the positive terminal. Black probe to the negative. If the DMM readout has a "-" at the front then they're the other way around.

Of course, if it outputs AC (like my old Mariner did) then it don't matter and you need to feed that current through a rectifier. Your DMM should tell you that as well.

^^ I did that with a redband merc, not sure about an evinrude.

felixdcat said...

I have an old 15 HP evinrude short leg hanging at the back of my yacht. Could some one tell me if it is right that you can buy an extention to make it a long leg outboard???

Check the prices - a friend went down that path with his old evinrude (no joke). It ended up costing him a sizeable percent of the price of a new outboard and he still ended up with an old motor. Although, I believe his was a 6hp, not a 15 so that'd probably make a sizeable difference.

felixdcat said...

doggie said...

felixdcat said...

I have an old 15 HP evinrude short leg hanging at the back of my yacht. Could some one tell me if it is right that you can buy an extention to make it a long leg outboard???

How old?

Not too sure I would say about 12 years! will have a look at the plate (if one) at the weekend.

I think there is an Evinrude shop in Ozy park, should be a common conversion as the Avon decent guys use them

felixdcat said...

Thank you for the hint Doggie, will chase it!

Cats and dogs getting along, who would have thought

felixdcat said...

doggie said...

felixdcat said...

Thank you for the hint Doggie, will chase it!

Cats and dogs getting along, who would have thought

just do not try to sniff my but!