Series wiring would require much heavier wire than parallel and if one wire failed you'd lose all the plugs after it where with parallel you only lose one.
Mercedes did series wiring at one point, gave it up for a reason and theres a reason everybody switches to parallel. -Curt Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:42:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Wiring a Switch in the Glow plug Relay Message-ID: <1379536921.89388.yahoomail...@web161001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >The glowplugs can be 10ga, no worries there, remember as somebody else said >its only 16a on a 4cyl. The one that >really ought to be heavier is the wire >from the battery to the solenoid which has to carry the whole 80a. 10ga seems >to >be adequate, in that its always worked for me but bigger is always better >right ;) Any time you can go bigger, do it.? Up to a 'stupid limit' of course.? If I had #8 or even #6 for plug wire, I'd use it.? Bigger than that and you get into connector issues pretty fast.? Remember the older plugs that had bare wire running between them and a single feed from the end.. that wire was no bigger than #10 and prolly #12 in fact.? It glowed red, too, sometimes. >You can't get around 4 of those 10ga runs, gotta have one each to the >injectors. If? you're rewiring the whole thing, I'd seriously consider only one wire, jumping between plugs, feeding from the middle with #8 or so.. and have the jumper wire custom made on some copper washers for connectors on top the plugs, make it #6 or so, or even bigger.? Then you have only one rail, not all the wires flopping around, and one feed.?? >A solenoid is a simple relay. 2 sets of contacts, one relatively low power >which activates the other higher power. I >*think* all solenoids are relays >but not all relays are solenoids. -Curt A solenoid is a coil of wire that has a ferromagnetic piece that moves based on magnetic field.? Sometimes that movement closes contacts.? Sometimes it allows air flow.? Sometimes it controls fluid.? If it is used as a relay, then the ferromagnetic piece opens/closes a set (s) of contacts that are rated at whatever you're trying to do with them ( hopefully (c: ) .. Interestingly some starter soleniods do both.. they have a mechanical component that slams the pinion into the ring gear, and an electrical component that applies power to the armature of the starter ( BA relay, if we're into alphabetisms LOL ) _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
