As you may have noticed, motorcycles have a number of buttons and switches around the handlebars and on the instrument cluster. Some motorcycles will have more than others depending on how new it is.
One particular switch, the kill switch, sometimes poses a mystery to motorcyclists. A lot of them wonder why a motorcycle has one in the first place and may question how it works. Why do motorcycles have a kill switch? A motorcycle has a kill switch because it lets a motorcyclist turn off the motorcycle without needing to take a hand off the handlebars since the button is within reach of the thumb.
I have owned over a dozen motorcycles in the last few years and have seen every type of kill switch the motorcycle industry has to offer. This article will explain further the purpose of a kill switch and how to properly use one. This button, known as the kill switch, is a mechanism that almost all motorcycles have.
The name of it explains exactly what it does: kills, or immediately turns off, the motorcycle. It takes both hands to operate a motorcycle properly and the kill switch helps with keeping the rider safe.
The kill switch has a knob that you turn, and in one position it is open, and gas will flow thru normally, but in the other position it is closed, and gas will not go thru. The downside to this kill switch is that you have to get under your car to turn the knob to open the fuel line. The next kind of hidden kill switch is a better one for a daily driver. It is the car battery disconnect switch.
You still have to open the hood most of the time to turn this one on and off, but that is still better than crawling under the car each time. You can have the wire run so the switch can be mounted somewhere inside the car and while most of these are knobs that turn some are switches or some require keys.
The way the car battery disconnect switch works is you unhook the negative car lead and then connect the kill switch to the negative battery terminal directly. You then feed the negative lead into the kill switch. When the knob is turned one way, the circuit is complete, and the car will function and start as normal.
If you turn it the other way though, then the car will not have power. This will make the thief think the battery is dead. Another downside to this kind of kill switch though is you will have to reset your clock and radio presets every time after using it because they stay in memory with the power from the battery.
Instead, it is activated with a remote that you can keep on your keys. Also, it is nice that you can activate it with your remote because this means you can do it secretly which is one of the main points of a hidden kill switch. The way the remote control battery kill switch works is that you connect electromagnetic solenoid valve terminal to your battery similar to the other car battery disconnect switch we have covered.
Then when you press a button, it uses a strong magnet to move a metal piece on the inside that either opens or closes the circuit. The nice thing is this device only draws power for a few moments after pressing the button.
Pressing the button sends power to one of the magnets or the other, but once it is activated power is not used to help the magnet hold the circuit opener or closer. Instead, it kills power to the fuse box. Some people just prefer to pull a key fuse such as the ignition fuse and then replace it when they want to drive, but depending on where your fuse box is and how much you drive this can be annoying.
If it is your daily driver, then it is easier and generally better to just install a fuse box kill switch. Also, by using a switch, it makes it less noticeable and thus more effective. The way a fuse box kill switch works is you run a fuse into your fuse box that when it is activated the fuses will not work. When it is not activated the fuse box will function normally.
They are not that hard to install and only take a few parts and tools. The nice thing is you can run the wires to the switch wherever you want so you can mount the switch wherever. This means that you can have it inside the cabin and even mount it to the dash or somewhere to make it look cool. If you want your car to look more spy like this is one way especially if you install dummy switches.
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