kicker charging systems on honda's

[salmonite]

anyone have one of these that can tell me how to hook it to my battery so i dont blow anything up? I see its got the plug but do i just run wires to my battery? What gauge wire should i buy?

Edited May 24, 2013 by salmonite

[ironhead]

I have a 2004 9.9 Honda with the 6 amp plug,

I bought the wire harness from a Honda dealer

for around $35.00 Canadian.

Hooks up with female plug at the motor and eyelets at the battery.

Works perfect.

[Kuba]

4ft of wire plus 6 crimp on automotive terminals will do exactly same thing for 5$, leaving you with 30$ to spend on tackle

[Meals-On-Reels]

I did the full install on a motor that didn't have a charge system to begin with and ended up just buying the female end section. Got the part # from Honda and found it off iboats or boats.net for like $18. It wasn't worth it to me to make my own (had wire/terminals/butt connectors already) but wanted it finished nicely after the whole install.

Edited May 24, 2013 by Meals-On-Reels

[salmonite]

boats.net sucks that is why i am asking... i ordered one and of course got the wrong one. Now everytime i call to get a new one i am on hold for at least 20minutes waiting for somebody that actually knows what they are talking about. which is hit or miss. Two times i have called the guy was so confused that he "said" he would call me back.  So i was hoping i could do it easliy with spare wire laying around but i guess i will call them and waste the next 30 minutes of my life

Edited May 24, 2013 by salmonite

[Meals-On-Reels]

I never speak to anyone, I just get the part number myself from an online parts schematic and order by part number online. Usually an eBay search by part number is even cheaper if someone has it listed. Never had an issue with boats.net or iboats.

[salmonite]

Meals, could you snap some pics of your male and female piece? They keep on telling me I have the correct one and I severely disagree

[salmonite]

Btw great handle!

[salmonite]

Seems pretty easy to me square peg does not fit into round hole. Anyone care to enlighten me an let me what stupid 2$ piece of equipment I am missing

[Meals-On-Reels]

I sold the Honda so I'm not really much help. Sorry. That's exactly what mine looked like though.

Get me the serial number off your motor and I'll dig into it. Those guys are total tools at those places and have no clue. After a few times I just started getting my own part numbers off the teardown schematics. I've had good luck even with orders of 20-30 parts for rebuilds and stuff.

Oh- and thanks. We always ran our boat nameless and then needed one ASAP for a tournament registration. We were surprised we couldn't dig up anybody ever using it from searches online. Lol

[Meals-On-Reels]

Salmonite- here's the part I had

#^*#@$- damn, can't figure how to link a pic here while using my phone!

Part was 31652-881-024

It's just the receptacle and you run your own wire. It comes out really nice and is waterproof, without just bypassing it and having wires hang out loose from the lower cowl.

Search that part on boats.net and take a look. It's $11.66. Still get me your serial if you want to verify.

Edit- Is that part 31575-ZW9-000 in your pic (square style)? So wrong... Sorry they keep giving you the run-around.

Edited May 25, 2013 by Meals-On-Reels

[salmonite]

See I have that piece and that square piece is supposed to plug into it... Just can't figure it out

[Meals-On-Reels]

The piece in your pic looks like its female (holes where the prongs go). The part number I gave you is male (prongs sticking out).

It's strange because if you judge male/female from the outside shape of the plug, it's opposite.

[salmonite]

Yeah I got the male too... Then lets start with how my charging cable connects to the male? I thought the male was just there to protect the female till you bought charging cable

Edited May 25, 2013 by salmonite

[Meals-On-Reels]

The center of the male part pops out and has terminals on the back. Pop out the center part and set it aside. Take the outer rubbery portion to Home Depot and find a shielded cable that fits through the hole in the back (I think I used a 20A extension cord I found in black, but think the charge system is only like 6A so use whatever works).

Take it home and thread your cable through the rubbery outer part so you have like a foot sticking out. Strip it and attach a wire to each terminal on the part you set aside. Pull it back through so the pieces go back together and you have your wire/plug assembly.

[ironhead]

This is what my 2004 set up looks like.

Square plug on the tiller handle.

[salmonite]

Thanks irond head.. Yes I have the same cable but not the same plug... As you can see in my above pictures of the plug I have. I figured I must have had the wrong cable. Does honda make an adapter piece for my plug or something. Boats.net said that is the only type of plug. If everything else fails I will use meals approach and return the cable.

Edited May 25, 2013 by salmonite

[salmonite]

Thanks so much guys!!!!

[Meals-On-Reels]

Salmonite- did you buy the motor used? Almost looks like your charge system was an add-on. I only say that because where your current oval shaped receptacle exits the cowl, you can see into the inside and see wires, where usually it's water-tight. Looks like it should have had the square receptacle mounted in there and somebody mounted the oval one like my 5hp had. That would explain why they keep sending you the square end. Maybe I'm wrong, I just seem to remember my plug exiting the cowl differently, like it was made for that style plug.

The other oval end you have will work perfect, they just don't offer it already wired. Same result when your all done.

They don't make it easy and offer an adaptor which would make it so simple.

Good luck and let me know if you want me to expand on my other instructions. I might still have some of the cable I used if you want it.

[ironhead]

This looks like the plug you need.

This is where I found it - http://marine.honda.com/outboards/accessories/charging-kits

Hope this helps

[salmonite]

Yes iron head I have it just didn't take a pic of it. Meals... They do show that type of receptacle in my manual and honda says I am supposed to have that type