Stator yellow wiring confusing!

[KilrBeaz]

I have a 90 Mercury 150 xr6 installing a stator and the 4 yellow wires are confusing me. I have 2 voltage regulators that they connect to. Each one has 2 solid yellow wires. My stator has 2 long wires which is yellow and yellow/ black. The other 2 are shorter with yellow and yellow/black. Does it matter where they go? Manual only shows lines no color just says yellow. If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[GA_Boater]

Welcome aboard.

Connect the shorter yellows to the closest reg and the other longer pair to the other reg. It makes no difference which two reg connectors are used for each pair of wires.

 

[KilrBeaz]

Awesome thanks man.

 

[gm280]

I would first take an ohm meter and read the wires to determine if there are two separate windings, or all the windings are together. You could have tow separate winding and the only way it will work is if you connect the one winding to one rectifier and the second winding to the other. Sounds confusing, but look at it like two separate circuits. If you connect one wire from one winding and the other wire from the second winding, you have no completed circuit. Hence no voltage out. Just an idea.

 

[GA_Boater]

That's why there is a short pair and a long pair - One pair per winding.

 

[KilrBeaz]

Well something isn't right. Now it cranks with no spark on any cyl. I've switched wires all around and nothing. It ran on 2 cyl until I changed the stator and trigger now nothing.

 

[KilrBeaz]

Ok, so I know I'm making this more complicated than it is but, that's how my mind works. I understand the circuit and one needs closed. If the short ones is one winding why are they different in color?

 

[GA_Boater]

Thought you said the new stator had two pairs of yellow wires and your old stator had yellow/yellow-black pairs?

I have 2 voltage regulators that they connect to. Each one has 2 solid yellow wires. My stator has 2 long wires which is yellow and yellow/ black.

 

[GA_Boater]

Serial number?

 

[KilrBeaz]

No my new one is yellow/black. Serial 0D123063. The old one had all yellow. I was also referring to regulators have only solid yellow

 

[Faztbullet]

Trigger wired correctly to switchboxes? Stator wired correctly to boxes? Rect/reg are wired as GA posted.

 

[KilrBeaz]

Yes I doubled checked and even switched the trigger wires in case and it backfired so I changed them back. I took a picture of the switchbox before unistall and all is wired as it was. The cranking sounds slower than usual I was going to check if the plugs are firing outside the motor just as comfort measures. Waiting for rain to pass.....

 

[KilrBeaz]

Alright so, no fire when plug is outside motor. So I guess it's a issue with starting system. Is it possible if I hooked things up wrong from the beginning that it fried my switchbox? I just don't understand I went from something to nothing right after the trigger, stator install. Thank you guys for bearing with me. I'm scratching my head a lot.

 

[Dukedog]

first think your motor is at least a '92 or newer.. XR6 first made its first existence in '91 (first year ot tha "fat block") and had tha single, water cooled rec/regulator.. tha 2 rec/reg system didn't show till '92.
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no fire when plug is outside motor...?

are you "grounding" tha plug case when its "outside"?.. is there a "yellow sleeve" on any of tha wiring, trigger, switch box, coils? ​

 

[KilrBeaz]

Yes it was grounded I layed it against the block and no fire. The old trigger had yellow sleeve but not this new one so I assumed the longer ones went to the outer switch box. When it didn't work I moved them and that's when it backfired so I moved them back to outer. The stator had white strips on them like my old one so I knew where they went.

 

[KilrBeaz]

UPDATE: I took the trigger back off and read the ohms and it is reading under manual specs. Goes to show never try to save money with a company you never heard of. (Jetunit). Could this cause the no spark on all cyl issue?

 

[KilrBeaz]

UPDATE #2: All is fixed trigger was bad, yellow wires were connected correctly. Thanks everyone for the help.:laugh:

 

[Dukedog]

good for you... glad ta see it workin' for ya...……..