Ben and all,
If your outboard motor has a charging coil, running the engine without the  
electricity going to the battery bank will absolutely fry your charging 
coil.  Whenever you have the motor running, you must have the battery switch 
turned on  so that it is charging something.
I'm sure that if you check the cable going from the battery to the motor  
lift, there is an inline fuse somewhere. If not, you need to install one. 
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 8/27/2009 5:41:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bencittadino at gmail.com writes:


Basso;

With all the switches off on the electrical board  my engine lift and 
starter
work also. Frankly, I never gave it much thought  and assumed that was the
way it is supposed to be.

So sign  me,

"Fat, dumb and happy"

BenC



Basso  wrote:

> 
> When I leave the boat I have been turning off the  battery switch, but 
last
> night I forgot and just pressed the  button...the lift dropped and the
> electric start on the outboard  worked.  I didn't think anything of it
> until I went to switch the  batteries to the off position and I found that
> it already was.
>  
> This leads me to a couple of questions.
> 1.  Is this  supposed to be the case?
> 2.  Should I re-wire the lift and O/B  start through fuse box?  I can't
> tell if there is a fuse running  to the lift motor.
> 3.  What would you do if it were your  boat?
> 

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