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Old 05-22-2012, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by HOTFLASH View Post
How is my wiring not sufficient--I did not understand this from Neil
What I was referring to was the suggestion you take the power supply from the IGN terminal on the ignition switch. The purple wire connected to that terminal on the switch is also connected to the coil positive terminal. It would be very tempting to grab the power from the coil rather than run a separate wire to the ign switch. Here's the problem with that temptation though: the purple wire going from the switch to the coil is 14 gauge and the yellow/red wire for the solenoid - that which you are duplicating with the remote start button - is 12 gauge according to the Moyer diagram. The larger gauge wire is to handle higher amperage. It's generally bad form to reduce the wire size from the specification.

Sorry for the confusion.
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