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Re: [TR] Another electrical question: TR3A gear

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Subject: Re: [TR] Another electrical question: TR3A gear
From: "Terry Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:04:36 -0400
Oh man, a prose electrical schematic!  I'd better check in, just to be 
clear:

I can take the heavy cable that WAS the second post of the solenoid, and 
move it to share the same solenoid post with the battery cable, and attach 
the other end of that cable to the big post on the gear reduction starter.

Then, I take a 12 or 14 gauge wire, run it from the old (now vacant) second 
post, to the spade on the gear reduction starter.

The white with red wire from the starter push switch to the spade on the 
solenoid, remains unchanged?

If I have this right, I like it!  You're right.  It would seem to shut the 
current out of the solenoid directly to the new starter built for it.

Thanks, Randall!!

Terry

>> When I bought the gear reduction starter (negative ground) from TRF, Dave
>> mentioned to run a wire from the battery post to the connecter that is, I
>> think he said, on the solenoid.  But that's where the starter button wire
>> goes.  Meanwhile, there's nothing attached to the little spade connector 
>> on
>> the starter itself.
>>
>> Am I missing something...other than grey cells?
>
> There are several ways to wire the gear reduction starter, but they all 
> include
> something connected to that spade connector.
>
> I wanted to keep the original "push button" solenoid functional, and also 
> wanted
> to relieve the original starter push-button of having to handle the much 
> higher
> current of the new solenoid that is integrated with the starter.  So, I 
> moved
> the old heavy starter lead to the other solenoid terminal (the same 
> terminal
> that is fed from the battery), and connected it to the big bolt on the new
> starter.  Then I fabricated a new wire from the now vacant terminal of the 
> old
> solenoid to the spade connector on the new solenoid (the one integrated 
> with the
> gear drive starter).
>
> Randall


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