battery hookup

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I was gone for three months and unhooked the battery before I left on my 2009 can am spyder sm5/se5. I got back yesterday and tried to hook up my battery and came into a problem. I have one red cable and at the end of that red cable, is another red cable coming off the end of the orginal. Both are the same in size, but the battery screw is not long enough which tells me that the red cable that comes off the end of the original cable goes somewhere else. There is one black cable. I tried, with a longer screw, to hook up both ends of the red cable to the positive terminal and the one black to the negative. I get no starter action or headlight action.

I called two dealers and they said they never heard of such a thing and where of no help....can anyone help me with this?

 

[boborgera]

I was gone for three months and unhooked the battery before I left on my 2009 can am spyder sm5/se5. I got back yesterday and tried to hook up my battery and came into a problem. I have one red cable and at the end of that red cable, is another red cable coming off the end of the orginal. Both are the same in size, but the battery screw is not long enough which tells me that the red cable that comes off the end of the original cable goes somewhere else. There is one black cable. I tried, with a longer screw, to hook up both ends of the red cable to the positive terminal and the one black to the negative. I get no starter action or headlight action.

I called two dealers and they said they never heard of such a thing and where of no help....can anyone help me with this?

Could you have disconnected the wires to the solenoid, when you unhooked the battery.?

 

[Lamonster]

Don't mind the other wires but this is what it should look like.

 

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Could you have disconnected the wires to the solenoid, when you unhooked the battery.?

Thanks so much for your reply. You hit the nail on the head. She started right up. Again, thanks so much.

 

[boborgera]

Thanks so much for your reply. You hit the nail on the head. She started right up. Again, thanks so much.

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