Trim switch help

[Embrey]

Loose connection in switch. Mine is doing this already on a brand new control box...

[Ruffneck]

Thanks all for the replies. I guess my next move is to take apart the handle and get out the multimeter.

[R19]

Justin Hall gave excellent trouble shooting advice. The setting to check continuity is ohms. As he said when checking ohms/continuity make sure there is no power present so unplug the switch.

I had a similar issue a few years ago. The shifter was rubbing my wires and over a period of time from shifting into forward/neutral/reverse it wore through the insulation and broke a wire. At 1st my problem was intermittent then it just would not do anything at the shifter. All other trim switches worked. As soon as I took my shifter apart I could see where it was rubbing the wires. I soldered them back together and used heat shrink tubing plus several wraps of electrical tape to protect the wires. I also pulled a little more slack in the wires so they would not rub.

If your problem is isolated to only one switch it should not take long to figure it out...just need a little troubleshooting.