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Old 11-10-2008, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Dangerous Doug View Post
..like the white wire going to the solenoid? Turns on when the ignition is on.
I don't have a diagram in front of me, but I believe the white wire is the ballast resistor bypass so the coil gets 12v on startup. Don't use that -- it only gets 12v when cranking (not while running), but I guess it could be back-feeding since it's running to the coil. I would run the feed for the choke off the fuse panel instead, and use an in-line fuse on it too. Pick one of the fuses that gets power when the ignition is on as opposed to constantly hot (if I recall correctly fuses 1 and 2 are constantly hot, the rest get their feeds when the key is turned).
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