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Re: Kill Switches

To: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>
Subject: Re: Kill Switches
From: Larry Young <cartravel@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:03:46 -0500
CVAR tech inspectors do require you to rev the engine to 3,000 and flip 
the kill switch.  If it doesn't die, your car fails.

Tony Drews wrote:

> I run a GM one wire alternator.  My kill switch is on the non-ground 
> side of the battery (positive), and I have the alternator run through 
> the alternator posts of the kill switch.  I never shut the car off 
> with the kill switch and have never had a tech inspector ask me to do 
> so.  But, it will certainly kill everything.  It also makes sure that 
> there's nothing hot in front of the kill switch when it's turned off - 
> good for when working on wiring and stuff near exposed terminals.  
> It's a very simple way to wire the thing up, and I don't have anything 
> that bleeds charge off of the battery when the switch is turned off.  
> The tech inspectors DO ask me to kill the brake lights with the kill 
> switch.
>
> - Tony Drews

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