Suzuki wire meanings. Please help

Jhayes780

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Just bought an aftermarket ignition and can’t find anything to state standard wire colors for my Suzuki 83 outboard 85 hp
 

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If your aftermarket ignition switch has spade terminals, then all you need to know is the engine harness wire colors and what they are. The switch will have: two "M" terminals (magneto). These two terminals kill the engine when the key is off as the ignition is grounded. "A" = accessory, "S" = starter solenoid, "C" = choke and "B or + " = +12 Volts. It probably looks like this but the wire colors are for Mercury. Switch doesn't care about wire colors, just what signal the wire carries.
 

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Jhayes780

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If your aftermarket ignition switch has spade terminals, then all you need to know is the engine harness wire colors and what they are. The switch will have: two "M" terminals (magneto). These two terminals kill the engine when the key is off as the ignition is grounded. "A" = accessory, "S" = starter solenoid, "C" = choke and "B or + " = +12 Volts. It probably looks like this but the wire colors are for Mercury. Switch doesn't care about wire colors, just what signal the wire carries.
So if this picture was the meaning for Suzuki wires, I would have to connect the green blue and red to the magneto ports?
 

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So if this picture was the meaning for Suzuki wires, I would have to connect the green blue and red to the magneto ports?
Basically I have a seloniod and an ignition wire on my starter and
 

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Jhayes780

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If your aftermarket ignition switch has spade terminals, then all you need to know is the engine harness wire colors and what they are. The switch will have: two "M" terminals (magneto). These two terminals kill the engine when the key is off as the ignition is grounded. "A" = accessory, "S" = starter solenoid, "C" = choke and "B or + " = +12 Volts. It probably looks like this but the wire colors are for Mercury. Switch doesn't care about wire colors, just what signal the wire carries.
So basically according to this if I have a selonoid, and ignition wire. What would I connect those to
 

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So basically according to this if I have a selonoid, and ignition wire. What would I connect those to
The "starter solenoid wire" connects to the "S" terminal. You should have two ignition wires, one of which is a ground and connects to one the "M" terminals. The ground wire connects to the other "M" terminal.
 
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