Does my jet ski have a starter solenoid or a starter relay?
The terms starter solenoid and starter relay are often used interchangeably as the switch that activates the battery current to your starter.
While they are designed slightly differently, both a starter solenoid and a starter relay switch are electromagnetic switches tasked with receiving a low power signal that in turn activates a high power signal to the starter. Simply speaking, all solenoids are relays, but not all relays are solenoids. Technically, the solenoid can trigger the higher current of the two.
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