safety tether kill switch

that doesnt sound right......

i was just getting ready to order one... hmm

QUOTE (hilarious @ Jun 27 2008, 08:40 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=3800i just wired up my new drag bike and have a question on the tether.
i have shortened my wire harness and taken out all the unnecessary
components (lights, key switch ect....).
i have my tether wired into the coil and am currently using it
for the only kill switch. i went for a test ride and acciedntally
touched the metal end of the tether switch and got a nice little jolt.
have any of you all had this happen to you?

Some of them require you to run a capacitor, I'm sure that's all you need to do...you can get them from radio shack, just solder it inline and wrap some electrical tape around it. Since you only run for a few seconds it shouldn't build enough heat to melt the tape.

aw heck. i thought about puttin a couple resistors inline with it to step the voltage down
but i dont know how much is going through that little orange wire.
you really think the tape wont melt, the wire is right behind the radiator?

Thanks, that's what I meant, resistor...I got capacitors on the brain right now, I need one for my car stereo.

The electrical tape should be fine, I've seen it withstand quite a bit of heat

Or maybe some heat shrink since you are going to radio shack anyways.

QUOTE (hilarious @ Jun 27 2008, 11:40 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=3800i just wired up my new drag bike and have a question on the tether.
i have shortened my wire harness and taken out all the unnecessary
components (lights, key switch ect....).
i have my tether wired into the coil and am currently using it
for the only kill switch. i went for a test ride and acciedntally
touched the metal end of the tether switch and got a nice little jolt.
have any of you all had this happen to you?


There is a another way to wire the kill switch and you won't get any shocks like you are now. If you still have it, there is a wire coming from the CDI that is black/yellow. This wire was once connected to your stock on/off switch. If you wire one side of the kill switch to that wire, and the other to ground, it will kill the ignition as you want.

u get it fixed ,dave ?

thats normal if you touch the metal part on the end,mine does it as well.

My CR250 ignition does the same thing, nice little jolt if you touch the metal part of the tether.
My MSD ignition never did this. I wonder if I switched the wires going to the tether.....would cure this?

I haven't started wiring mine yet but glad this thread started...lol Someone once told me if you run a teether switch you can still run a engine kill buttom. How would you wire all this together?

Mine is black/white stripe as well. One wire of the kill switch to that, the other a frame ground. remember, if you have a powder coated frame, you might have to scrape it off for a good ground.

is pro design the only one that makes them..

No Rico i have a Vitos basically the same thing but different name.

QUOTE (kawiking @ Jul 6 2008, 05:54 PM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=4646is pro design the only one that makes them..
Tusk (RMATV) and a couple others that I can't think of at the moment also make them, but the Pro Design unit is of far better quality......... The down side is that the PD unit is near twice the price of competitive switches.

Black/white is correct on the color. Was going from memory. I had researched this before and found that grounding the black/white wire is better on the ignition system than tieing into the coil wires. Using the black/white wire kills the ignition the same as the original setup from the factory.

QUOTE (Lightninn @ Jul 7 2008, 10:23 AM) index.php?act=findpost&pid=4683Black/white is correct on the color. Was going from memory. I had researched this before and found that grounding the black/white wire is better on the ignition system than tieing into the coil wires. Using the black/white wire kills the ignition the same as the original setup from the factory.

Hm, i do still have that wire hanging off. I wonder what i did with the one for the ground though...would it happen to be tied in with the black wire that goes from the harness to the coil?

Edit: re-read daves post. the ground wire comes FROM the tether, not goes to it right? so you only have 1 switch going from the harness to the kill switch.