gstaten24 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Posted April 16, 2011 hey everyone, so i am racing my wifes bike tommorow (banshee is still down) and i need to get a tether kill switch for it. now the only one i can find around here is a bike masters kill switch, how would i find out if its a normally open or normally closed switch? i have to drive two hours to buy it and i dont wanna drive all the way there if its normally open because then it wont work on her bike. any help would be greatly appreciated!! Quote
WINDYCITYJOHN400 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) hey everyone, so i am racing my wifes bike tommorow (banshee is still down) and i need to get a tether kill switch for it. now the only one i can find around here is a bike masters kill switch, how would i find out if its a normally open or normally closed switch? i have to drive two hours to buy it and i dont wanna drive all the way there if its normally open because then it wont work on her bike. any help would be greatly appreciated!! The banshee requires one that's normaly open. You tie it into the wiring of the igniton kill that's normaly in the bar mount with the light switch. The Gunner style switch has a twin wire lead. You just unplug the black/white wire at the two barrel connectors, then plug the red wires from the tether switch into them. Then you run the solid black wire from the tether to a good ground. (I used the bolt from the coil mount under the tank.) then give it a test. The switch works by grounding the ignition when the tether is pulled. Unlike a battery powered machine in which you are killing power to the ignition. (It's best to warm the bike up a little first, so your not freaked out if your kicking a hard starting cold motor after you mess with the wiring. ) LOL. Sorry, forgot to tell you how to test it. So, if you have a multi-meter you can just ohm it out to see if it has continuity all the time or not. If you don't have one.... your going to have to get a little creative. You can try to run some small current through it. Try sectioning it into one wire leading to a speaker of a radio or use it to send power though itself to feed a flashlight bulb. Please don't use line voltage. LOL. A home stereo speaker is the easiest redneck tester. If the music stops when you pull the tether...it's normaly closed. If it starts when you pull it....it's normaly open. Edited April 17, 2011 by WINDYCITYJOHN400 Quote
gstaten24 Posted April 17, 2011 Author Report Posted April 17, 2011 Ok great thanks!! That's exactly what I was needing! Quote
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