buddy 50 ignition coil

Sadler81 · Post by **Sadler81** » Sun Aug 20, 2017 6:02 pm

Hi, I have an a buddy 50 that I'm replacing the ignition coil on. The original coil has a black and red terminal and black and red wires from the harness. The new coil has a green and black terminal but everything else is identical. Not sure if I should hook the black to black and red to green, or the opposite. Any help would be greatly appreciated! [/i]

babblefish · Post by **babblefish** » Mon Aug 21, 2017 6:12 am

Black should be the negative terminal, so connect black to black and you should be OK.

Sadler81 · Post by **Sadler81** » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:56 pm

babblefish wrote:Black should be the negative terminal, so connect black to black and you should be OK.

That's what I was thinking at first but a lot of Chinese scooters use green as the ground. I found a few gy6 wiring diagrams that use this coil and they have the green terminal on the coil going to the ground and the black terminal going to the cdi box.

babblefish · Post by **babblefish** » Mon Aug 21, 2017 3:27 pm

The wiring diagram for the Taiwan made (not Chinese

) Buddy shows the black as negative and goes directly to the negative post of the battery. In any case, connecting it backwards wouldn't hurt anything anyway, but good luck with whatever you decide to do.