Yamaha F250 Owner's Manual

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Operation382. Attach the engine stop switch lanyard toa secure place on your clothing, or yourarm or leg. Then install the lock plate onthe other end of the lanyard into the en-gine stop switch.WARNINGEWM00120 Attach the engine stop switch lanyard toa secure place on your clothing, or yourarm or leg while operating. Do not attach the lanyard to clothingthat could tear loose. Do not route thelanyard where it could become entan-gled, preventing it from functioning. Avoid accidentally pulling the lanyardduring normal operation. Loss of enginepower means the loss of most steeringcontrol. Also, without engine power, theboat could slow rapidly. This couldcause people and objects in the boat tobe thrown forward.3. Turn the main switch to “ ” (on).NOTE:Dual engine users: When the main switch isturned on, the buzzer operates for a few sec-onds then stops automatically. The buzzeralso operates if one of the engines stalls.4. Turn the main switch to “ ” (start),and hold it for a maximum of 5 seconds.5. Immediately after the engine starts, re-lease the main switch to return it to “ ”(on).CAUTION:ECM00191 Never turn the main switch to “ ”(start) while the engine is running. Do not keep the starter motor turning formore than 5 seconds. If the starter motoris turned continuously for more than 5seconds, the battery will be quickly dis-charged, thus making it impossible tostart the engine. The starter can also bedamaged. If the engine will not start after5 seconds of cranking, return the mainswitch to “ ” (on), wait 10 seconds,then crank the engine again.ZMU04628ONSTARTOFFONSTARTOFFZMU04589