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1. Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:23:05 EDT; Dear FOT, I finally got around to going negative and installing an alternator on the TR-3. I fired up the engine in the garage and turned down the throttle linkage screw a little to keep it running,; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00264.html (8,277 bytes)
2. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>; Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:41:06 -0500; 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; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00265.html (9,562 bytes)
3. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: tom strange <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:44:46 -0700 (PDT); Typically the tech inspector will not be a problem. What i have had most of them do, is keep my foot on the brake, kill the master, and let them see the brake lights go out.,,, engine off. I also hav; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00266.html (9,296 bytes)
4. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: 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.; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00271.html (8,373 bytes)
5. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:31:49 EDT; << 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.>> I wonder if he will pay for any damages that may occur? It would proba; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00273.html (8,049 bytes)
6. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:13:43 -0400; My kill switch just shuts off the ground. No fancy kill switch with alternator contacts here. If tech inspectors ask to see the car shut off by the kill switch, I refuse. I simply tell the tech inspe; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00274.html (8,656 bytes)
7. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@mindspring.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:25:48 -0400; Requiring the kill switch to shut down the engine makes sense to me on the issue of safety alone. If properly wired, the kill switch should minimally serve as a master on/off for ignition and any ele; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00294.html (9,879 bytes)
8. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: Susan Kahler <spitfiresuz@141.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:31:14 -0500; Hi everyone! From what I understand, SCCA and therefore CVAR require that the kill switch also completely disrupt power coming from the alternator. Tristan is wired to use the kill switch as the on/o; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00295.html (9,152 bytes)
9. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:33:59 +0134; OK . You have me thinking... Sent from my PDA - Sorry about brevity and typos; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00297.html (7,953 bytes)
10. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:10:00 EDT; << My kill switch just shuts off the ground. No fancy kill switch with alternator contacts here.>> Breaking the ground would stop the car with a generator. If I thought about it, I could shut off the; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00298.html (8,851 bytes)
11. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: emanteno@comcast.net; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:15:27 +0000; -- Original message -- Does anyone know of a heavier duty switch like this? I found push pull switched rated for 60 amps at (ugh!) Pep Boys. Irv Korey TR4 #58; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00299.html (8,217 bytes)
12. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mjb@autox.team.net>; Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:29:50 -0600; Hypothetical situation #1: You wired in a simple two post kill switch in a car running an alternator. The tech inspector requests that you demonstrate that the kill switch works, so you fire up the m; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00300.html (8,729 bytes)
13. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: tom strange <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 05:41:22 -0700 (PDT); I absolutely agree.... If the kill switch leaves electricity and fuel, both turned on, making friends with each other, when my car is upside down, on its side, bent in half etc.... I really dont want; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00304.html (9,807 bytes)
14. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: Larry Young <cartravel@pobox.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:21:29 -0500; I may be confused on this thread. My alternator's output is wired to the positive battery terminal. When I flip the kill switch, the battery and alternator are still connected, but they're isolated f; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00306.html (8,707 bytes)
15. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: <triumph_marx@freenet.de>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:33:56 +0200; I use a 6-pole FIA kill switch. It has an electrical element to protect the alternator. The switch is mounted inside the car, were I can reach it and has an external switch for cut off from out side.; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00307.html (9,260 bytes)
16. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:45:44 -0400; Mark, et al; I don't believe Hypothetical #1 is a possibility at all. Electric current doesn't just generate a shower of sparks because the circuit path has been opened...especially not at 14volts DC; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00308.html (11,079 bytes)
17. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Bill Sohl" <billsohl@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:50:55 -0400; You got it right. Additionally, while the alternator may still be connected to the battery, hitting your kill switch (assuming its otherwise like a master hot lead disconnect to ignition, etc) opens; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00309.html (9,214 bytes)
18. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "John Herrera" <jrherrera90@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:57:09 -0400; The kill switch in my car, soon to be Mark's car, is in the battery ground circuit only. The car has a generator. The kill switch does not kill the engine. This is because the generator will still pu; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00312.html (11,485 bytes)
19. Re: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:40:27 -0500; SCCA section 12.26 reads as follows: "All cars, except Showroom Stock and Improved Touring, shall be equipped with a master switch easily accessible from outside the car. The master switch SHALL BE; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00317.html (8,849 bytes)
20. RE: Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:50:58 -0700; That should work fine, with the exception that the wire to the alternator is always hot. If you've been in a wreck that shorted that wire, opening the kill switch won't let the fire go out. There's; /html/fot/2005-04/msg00318.html (8,432 bytes)

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