if you can't find a "chinese" solenoid, then compare the yamahas, suzukis, kawasakis, polaris, Eton, and canam/ktm's solenoids. they may interchange.

 

A solenoid is a solenoid. Any quad solenoid will work for your 110cc machine, as long as you can make it fit mechanically and have the ability to wire it up even if the connector don't match.

All it is just a device with a coil of wire in it wound on a steel core. You pur 12 volts across the coil and it will draw 3 or 4 amps of current. That generates a magnetic field, which suck down a steel plate, that shorts the two big (usually screw) terminals together, which connects the battery directly acros the starter motor. The starter draws 35 to 50 amps. See how this works? The solenois allows you to switch the comparitively enormous current to the starter motor, which a much, much smaller current. That means the start button can be normal sized instead of a big massive expensive switch.

I wouldn't put a 110cc solenoid into a 250cc quad. The 250cc starters draw more starter current and the 110cc solenoids may not be able to handle it. Putting a 250cc starter solenoid onto a 110cc quad is OK.

I wouldn't put an automobile solenoid onto a quad. A car starter draws 500 amps (or so) so we're OK there, but to do that reliably the solenoid has to draw 20 amps on the coil side, and that will be too much for your little start button.

So use reason and common sense. Any solenoid in the neighborhood of a "quad" application will work (if you can mount it and wire it).

 

sorry Lynn, i did not know that. i just presumed styles because i've seen chinese solenoids with a fuse mounted on and wired in and i've seen the plain jane generic solenoids. i just presumed that mostly a generic one could be used but that some models/brands may require one that is specific.

fused


as opposed to this generic one:



once again, i'm learning more and more of the electrical side. once again, sorry......

 

Jaster, I was agreeing with you, not countering your post . I was only trying to make the point that there are many options when it comes to replacing solenoids.

I also agree that the solenoids on some quads are a combination of the solenoid and the main fuse mounted together in the same assembly. If anyone does decide to put in just a solenoid to replace a solenoid/fuse combination then they would have to add and wire in the main fuse separetely.