Starter solenoid wiring help needed

[fish56]

I had pulled the powerhead off my '94 Mariner 25HP electric start outboard, and stupid me, hadn't taken a picture or drew a diagram, as to how the three wires were attached to the starter solenoid.
The left side of the solenoid just has one large terminal. The right side has a large terminal, in addition to 2 small terminals behind it. The 3 wires in question is the positive feed from the battery(pale red shrinktube in picture), a thick yellow colored wire that comes from the bottom of the starter(black shrinktube eyelet just below right terminal in picture), and a small red wire that comes from the positive, bottom terminal of the rectifier above the solenoid. These 3 wires, just go to the front 2 large terminals (2 are put together on one terminal). I just don't recall which wires to which terminals.
Thanks for the help.

Here's a thumbnail photo, hope it works.

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[WillyBWright]

Re: Starter solenoid wiring help needed

The lead to the starter goes on one side, the lead to the battery and the rest of the smaller wires with large eyes go to the other side.

The yellow goes to one of the small terminals and there is probably a black to go to the other.

 

[fish56]

Re: Starter solenoid wiring help needed

Thanks for the reply WBW,
Still not sure what's correct. I probably needed to explain that I only disconnected the wires that went to the large terminals in front of the solenoid. I did this to move the solenoid enough to get at the shift rod coonection behind it. When I took the wires off, there were two wire eyelets on one of the large terminals, I believe the right side, and one wire eyelet to the left. I'm pretty sure the small red wire from the rectifier positive terminal above went to the right side solenoid terminal.
So the main question is, which side of the solenoid does the positive wire from the battery go to and then the yellow wire from the starter bottom, would have to go to the other side? The right side would have the small red wire in addition to which bigger wire?

Thank you again, sorry for being such a pain

 

[ricksrster]

Re: Starter solenoid wiring help needed

The red wire from the rectifier connects to the battery red wire to charge it.