After mowing, I brought it in to clean it up. When I tried to start it to move it to it's parking space, it wouldn't turn over. Have lights and a fresh battery. Started some testing of the interlock switches (seat, brake/clutch pedal, and belt drive. All checked out good with multi -meter. Battery shows 12.5 volts. Checked wiring and ground connections..all appear good. Not sure about ignition switch as I don't know which terminals to touch with the meter. Wiring diagram shows three terminals, B, S, and A1 for the start circuit. Engine is a Honda 16 HP twin with the solenoid mounted on the starter. Before I jump the starter, I want to know if this is done by touching the spade terminal (with the white wire) to the red power terminal with a screwdriver. I used to do this on cars back in the day to bypass the ignition switch. I don't want to damage anything so any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch!!
If you jump from the Large terminal (coming from the battery + terminal).... to the small terminal.... it should spin the starter... If the key is on It should start... :smile:KennyV
There is a weak spark when jumping the solenoid, so, a bad battery. Duh..I should have checked it out, but I couldn't believe the battery would all of a sudden crap out when it was running fine. Chalk it up to lessons learned.
Before you toss that battery, you might charge it up again (GENTLY!) and take it to a place that has a battery load tester. As an aside, I've had lousy luck with batteries from Wal-Mart.:ashamed: Uh, I'm shocked...
Uh, I'm shocked...