Tonight I installed the solenoid pack and cover and wired everything up according to the schematics from Bill Vista's site. I made sure to undo the negative battery cable while threading the main cable through the rad enclosure and attaching it to the positive side.
Learned a long time ago that when playing with positive terminals you want to disconnect the neg first to ensure you can't short it out with a wrench or, like a guy I once knew, your wedding ring...
Everything installed, remote wired up and I connected the final power cable. No sparks, no hot wires or shorts, so I must have done something right.
However, my first try resulted in nothing but silence. I used a test light to check current, ohm meter to check ground -- all checked out.
After a little more sniffing around I came to the conclusion that one of the low current pins might need to be grounded. Took the solenoids back apart to ensure I didn't send current where it didn't belong and did a test with one solenoid. Power to one low current pin, ground to the other and -- click -- full current went through it to the motor.
So, rather than run an additional wire I just removed the plastic insulator under the terminals I am using for ground and put the nuts back on. Note in the picture above, one terminal has a ground washer and the other one doesn't.
Tightened up all the other connections again, plugged in the remote and voila -- she works!
Now, to find something to pull. Hmmm, that stump in the corner of the yard might give it a good workout on the weekend...
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