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Originally Posted by I am me
Ok cool that's basically what I was picturing. Im ptobably midunderstanding you but youused a relay to protect your switch even though the point of the switch is to control the starter solenoid/relay? Or are you saying used a Bosch relay in stead of the starter solenoid?
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I wasn't sure how many amps the solenoid coil draws, so I used the switch to activate the little Bosch cube relay that turns on the Ford solenoid.
I don't disagree with Dan that a continuous duty solenoid would be better, but let the record show that my junk yard Ford solenoid has been in the car for almost 110k miles and is still going strong (and being a junk yard unit, who knows how may cycles it had before I procured it. Of course 95% of my glows are 3-5 seconds and the longest I recall doing was 25 seconds, so that probably has something to do with it. YMMV
