KE4AVB wrote:
I just wish they would use DC electrical wiring color coding where Red is + DC voltage and Black is the - DC return line.
I wish they'd standardize color coding, period.. so wire colors would tend to mean the same circuit across all machines from the same manufacturer... but that'll never happen.
I've seen too many generic diagrams that were off base from the original wiring, to ever really trust the diagrams from ARI images (if you notice the watermark of the image..) If the wiring colors matched exactly on the machine and the diagram, then I'd believe the diagram...but too often I've tried to trace a circuit by a diagram's wire color code only to discover (after giving up and cutting the harness out of the conduit and tape) that the diagram was wrong... so I rarely put all my faith into a diagram like that - but in the diagram above, as I had noted, green has nothing to do with his start circuit at that point - solenoid appears to be a 3-post so it grounds through the base.. so I was trying to direct him away from chasing that green wire, it should have no relevance to start circuit, nor should that wire (that grounds to the solenoid) have any relevance to the magneto circuit either..
(magneto ground should go to the key switch M terminal and only connect to ground when switch is off, and should have 0 volts..... back where he said he had 12v at the green wire at solenoid, I would expect it to be 12v if it was not fastened down, and key on, since it is the ground for headlights and would be showing 12v if it wasn't contacting ground, and headlights on.. and should not have anything to do at all with the magneto circuit)
How poor are they who have not patience. What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? - Iago (Othello Act II, Scene 3)