Battery in trunk wiring question
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11/02/11 10:01 PM
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Dodgeguy101
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Since I am "search" challenged, I need some help.
I have my battery in the trunk, cut off switch, and the alt wire run to the back also. I saw a posting, nice diagram, awhile back about using a ford solenoid to run the alt wire to, so when you flipped the switch it killed the engine, like you are supposed to have, and it kept the alt wire from being hot all the time. How are the 2 little studs wired? I know what goes on the 2 main studs, but how to wire the 2 little ones. May sound silly but I don't to hook something up wrong not knowing, better ask, then be wrong. Thanks Bill
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Re: Battery in trunk wiring question
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11/02/11 10:08 PM
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Todd
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First off make sure you use a constant duty solenoid. A regular ford solenoid wont work it gets hot and quits. Don't ask me how I know. On the solenoid the one small terminal goes to the switched side of the cut off switch and the other if it has two and it's not case grounded goes to ground.  I have a pic of how I did mine but can't get to it right now. Here I found one.
Last edited by Todd; 11/03/11 10:26 AM.
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Re: Battery in trunk wiring question
[Re: Gearhead383]
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11/04/11 03:14 PM
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Todd
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The solonoid is there so that when the kill switch is turned off the solonoid turns off which turns off the alt. So it wont back feed and keep the engine running.
I had to reword my other post about the solonoid so others may not understand this reply however, there is nothing to back feed. If you contain the output of the alt to the battery and no other circuits, it can't feed anything else, specificly the ignition. Not trying to start anything here, but I don't see the need for the solonoid. Unless the voltage is feeding through the field wires??? I've wired mine like this, however I use a single wire alt. Maybe thats why it work for me. Hmmm...
Your exactly right. I use one also to make sure that all the voltage is off especially if I forget and i'm messing around at the alt.
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