Clone swap with 5 pin relay solenoid question

dduffett

If you wire in a 5 pin relay so you can use the foot pedal to kill the engine when you let off the gas I have a question. When you press foot pedal obviously 12 volts is running through the 5 pin relay and the engine starts. When engione is running and foot pedal is pressed is there a constant 12 volts running through the solenoid causing it to be engaged 100% of the time while running? Is this an issue? Will the solenoid get hot and wear out faster? or am I not thinking this right? The key switch is just on and off so you have no spring load for start/run which does disengage solenoid after engine starts when used normally.

BGW

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bigjohn141

You're over thinking it lol. All the 5 pin relay does is disengage the coil ground, the rest of the starting system works just like the factory golf cart.

sho305

You wire the solenoid to kill (ground) the clone ignition at rest, unpowered. When powered it un-grounds it and allows it to run. So it is powered when the cart runs (via the pedal switch), and not powered the thousands of hours the cart is not running. You need the 5 pin because the 4 pin can't ground (connected) at rest when not powered, the 5 pin can do either. Buy the harness last I knew the harness and relay were both around $3 on amazon. If you need to run the cart for pull start or emergency, just unplug the relay to do so and it will run all the time. You can leave the kill switch on the engine in parallel to kill it or make the cart not run if you wish, until someone finds it and turns it on lol. On my G9 yami the coil/start solenoid/ignitor were all powered up by the pedal switch wire. I used the coil hot to run the bosch solenoid and kill the clone. The start solenoid of course is still there the other two I simply unplugged and removed and wire tie/taped up the empty plugs save for the coil wire I used.