Starter solenoid

[Painter]

You guys are making this way to hard. Simply put a jumper wire between the battery post on the starter and the start terminal. Now when the “slave solinoid” is triggered it sends voltage to both terminals! Wow! How simple can you get. No small wire even going to the starter to get burned by the headers. Battery cable going to the starter is only hot when you try to start. Takes very little amperage to trip slave, and the solinoid on the starter is trip by battery voltage and amerage. Win-win situation.

[gmonde]

Originally Posted by terry1

Does anyone know, or has anyone measured, how much
current a starter solenoid draws.
Terry K

I depends on the solenoid ,are you talking a solenoid that is part of the starter ? gm,dodge or old fords ,, some can take 8amps to operate but can hold a 100 amp to the starter,,

if you have a good multimeter it has to capability to measure the amp draw thru a amp clamp

to add if your starter motor is seasoned it will draw more amps to operate