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    Mercury power steering - SOLVED

    Thank you so much scottkp for chiming in while you're out of town!! This makes so much more sense than the way it came wired at delivery! Power steering hard wired to battery #2 on mine which means running only on battery #1 is going to quickly drain #2 running the power steering! I would...
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    Mercury power steering - SOLVED

    Thank you for posting that video @Potomacbassin’ , it appears the switch in that video is the one that Scottkp ended up going with and a different version of the relay. But honestly, the difference in cost between the switch installed and the Blue Sea 5511e is only $16. Then add in the cost of...
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    Mercury power steering - SOLVED

    Well at least we're not the only one! I just find it absolutely ridiculous to spend this kind of money for a boat and not have a correctly functioning electrical system! Post #19 in this thread has the video of the Blue Sea Si-ACR that would appear to resolve this issue by keeping both...
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    Mercury power steering - SOLVED

    Sorry to revive an old thread but we have run into the same issue on our 2022 Bennington QX and the dealer has been zero help! @scottkp thank you for creating this post! With no help of the dealer we were able to at least diagnose that the power steering going out is in fact electrical related...
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