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I think you only have on/off battery switches. Jumping the battery parallel solenoid gives you better cranking. Cig didn't uses the biggest battery cable back in the day.
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I would leave it factory setup as it was designed to jump one engine if one battery dies... it saved me last summer when I lost charging in one engine, battery was not charged enough to start it, fired good engine, hit switch and fired the other, still didnt charge but it got it going enough to get me back on 2 engines, I now have a charging jumper wire with a fuse to link the two together for charging if I lose charging ability again on one of the engines...
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When replacing these jumper solenoids, I believe you would want constant duty solenoids as opposed to starter solenoids since they would typically be switched on for extended periods of time. Bill
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In my mistress you would have to hold the parallel switch manually to have it on all the time... I would think they are all like that since the reason is to jump the other engine