So I mounted my starter solenoid to the plastic fender liner, would a 10G wire directly to the battery be a good enough ground? Or should I go bigger? Thanks!!
solenoid ground
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the best ground is metal to metal but in your case the bigger/shorter the better.when it comes to grounds it's cheap insurance.
If this is the "ground" for the solenoid coil, then 10ga to the frame, body or straight back to the battery would be fine. The solenoid coil doesn't use a helluva lot of current. The positive wire to the starter (obviously) should be very heavy gauge. The starter return path (negative) is through the block and back to the negative side of the battery through whatever heavy azz gauge wire you have from the batt neg to the block. I should draw this up...
Nothing wrong with grounding stuff, if you work with enough electronics you'd know it's not a bad thing.
Getting back to the original question. Good enough, yes it's good enough. Is it required, NO. A giant ground wire is not required on something that does not need to be grounded to work.
A relay under the hood of a modern car is not grounded but I'm still wondering why your solenoid is not on the starter?
A relay under the hood of a modern car is not grounded but I'm still wondering why your solenoid is not on the starter?
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