Stratos 294 w/200 opti RPMS & Motor Height?

[thedogg50]

Question guys? I have not spent any time yet adjusting my 294. It has a 6" jack plate with a tempest plus 25 and yesterday when I was on the lake my alarm went off and I looked and my RPM guage was at around 6000. It is shooting a rooster tail higher than the motor. I have heard differnet things about this. It dont need to shoot a tail. It does need to shoot a tail but no higher than the motor. I was running around 70mph turning around 5900-6000rpm when my alarm went off and I am guessing the computer idled my motor down until it reached around 10k then I was able to get back in it, safty feature I am sure? Do I need to lower the motor? Thanks!

[MD 20i]

way to small of prop. you have a 5750 limiter. you need a 27 tempest if your going to run that brand of props. 27 txp, 26 fury, 28 bravo 1 are others you need to look into gettting. about 2" below is a good number for the bravo and TXP. 3" to 3 1/4" below is where you need to be for the tempest and fury

[ep72]

What Michael said. If your gonna run a tempest set the motor @ 2.75" with large plugs and forget about it. Anything lower than 3" and its gonna chine walk like a bad dog. The Fury is about the only prop that I would run below 3".

Have your tach checked out, i think guardian kicks in about 5850 and shuts everything down.

[coleman]

Echo everything said above...these guys have helped me out immensely! I run a 26p tempest and have to really watch the RPMs before guardian kicks in, so I imagine a 25 is really bad to overrev. I'm setup between 2.5 and 2.75 with a 6" plate and run 72 with 2 people and an average load. Before the jackplate I couldn't drive the boat above 5000rpm without scaring myself to death.

be sure to read the sticky about properly measuring the engine height, also EP had an excellent post about 294's and prop selection. It's on page 2