Pontoon Boat & Deck Boat Forum

Need to replace the keyswitch for a 2000 Honda BF115 on a 2001 Bennington pontoon. It is rigged with Evinrude/OMC contols and keyswitch panel. I thought it would be simple, but the wire colors I have don't match anything I see in my research. Can someone please tell me which wire connects to which terminal on the new keyswitch?

Oh...and all the diagrams I see have 6 wires. My existing keyswitch only has 5 wires attached to it. So there's that, too. Do I just conclude one terminal on the new keyswitch is unused in my application?

Here are the wire colors coming off the original keyswitch in clockwise order:

1. black w/ red stripe
2. solid black
3. black w/ white stripe
4. black w/ yellow stripe
5. (in center) white w/ black stripe

And here are the terminals on the new keyswitch with their purpose:

B battery
A accessory
C primer
S start
M magneto
M ground


TIA

I don't know if this will be of any help to you but here's the wiring diagram for the switch on my Honda.

Thank you so much for taking the time to post that. It basically validates what I have. All the wire colors on the diagram for the ignition switch section match what I have. Unfortunately, it still doesn't help me figure out which wire goes to which terminal on the new keyswitch.

I think, based on info I just got on thehulltruth.com, that I need a Honda switch even though the boat is rigged with OMC / Evinrude binnacle controls, panels, etc.

To close this thread, I finally got a Honda OEM keyswitch and the wire colors all matched up.