Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2015 15:15:19 GMT
Here's a DIY on mounting a kill switch onto the handle bars vs just having the one on the motor. This mod is great for easy access to killing the motor without having to get up out of your seat or reaching back behind you to kill the motor when sitting. Also a great mod for if some reason you can't stop and need to kill the motor right away for any reason.
Here's my Kill switch, I got mine for 7$. You can pick one up online for anywhere from 4$-12$. They're pretty universal but I made sure mine had a bar mount on the back so I didn't have to fab anything up.
I mounted mine on the right side since I'm right handed, on the inside on my throttle setup. Here you can see the mount clip is held on by two screws. Very simple process. One at the top and one on the bottom(kindve hidden behind the wires connected to the switch). Take those screws out and the back piece comes right off so you can apply them to the bars. Then you just reapply the backing and reinsert the two screws (top and bottom that were mentioned).
A front view of the kill switch so you get an idea of how it looks next to the throttle. Pardon the missing throttle grip.
To avoid lines looking like they were being ran all over the place I taped the kill switch lines to the throttle cables line(since they're both heading in the same direction).
I also had to extend the lines that came with the switch so that they'd reach all the way to the rear. Unfortunetely I didn't get any photos of this process. But if you've ever worked with speaker wire before, making the lines longer were no different. However I did mark the ground wire with blue tape on both ends so I knew which wire was which when I got to the motor. Coming from the switch one was red(power) and one was green(ground). Or in this case with the switch if it helps you, red is "on" and green is "off".
This is where I did one cut on the original kill switch wires. Right before the switch on the motor. I did this so if I ever wanted to sell my motor for any reason, I could simply pull the kill switch out and reconnect the two ends to the original wire and it wouldn't look completely tampered with. However, doing "THIS" basically gives you two kill switches.. If the switch on the motor is "off"... Then the kill switch on the handle bars doesn't do anything, on or off. Mainly because if it is on or off, it won't matter due to the kill switch on the motor comes after the one on the handle bars in this process. And if the Motor mounted kill switch is not on, well the current isn't making it to its complete destination. So keep the kill switch down there on, and your handle bar kill switch will then be the only one you need... Having both does act for a good security though. If the motor mounted switch is off and someone wants to ride it and has the handle bar switch on.. They still can't start it until you flip the motor kill switch
Now if you ONLY want to use your HANDLE BAR KILL SWITCH, you'd do the same process. But you would do two cuts instead of one. Here is where you would relocate your green wire (ground wire/off wire). This way nothing is going through your motor mounted kill switch anymore and your handle bar kill switch is the ONLY switch in your line.
Hope this helps somebody out there:)
-JJ
Here's my Kill switch, I got mine for 7$. You can pick one up online for anywhere from 4$-12$. They're pretty universal but I made sure mine had a bar mount on the back so I didn't have to fab anything up.
I mounted mine on the right side since I'm right handed, on the inside on my throttle setup. Here you can see the mount clip is held on by two screws. Very simple process. One at the top and one on the bottom(kindve hidden behind the wires connected to the switch). Take those screws out and the back piece comes right off so you can apply them to the bars. Then you just reapply the backing and reinsert the two screws (top and bottom that were mentioned).
A front view of the kill switch so you get an idea of how it looks next to the throttle. Pardon the missing throttle grip.
To avoid lines looking like they were being ran all over the place I taped the kill switch lines to the throttle cables line(since they're both heading in the same direction).
I also had to extend the lines that came with the switch so that they'd reach all the way to the rear. Unfortunetely I didn't get any photos of this process. But if you've ever worked with speaker wire before, making the lines longer were no different. However I did mark the ground wire with blue tape on both ends so I knew which wire was which when I got to the motor. Coming from the switch one was red(power) and one was green(ground). Or in this case with the switch if it helps you, red is "on" and green is "off".
This is where I did one cut on the original kill switch wires. Right before the switch on the motor. I did this so if I ever wanted to sell my motor for any reason, I could simply pull the kill switch out and reconnect the two ends to the original wire and it wouldn't look completely tampered with. However, doing "THIS" basically gives you two kill switches.. If the switch on the motor is "off"... Then the kill switch on the handle bars doesn't do anything, on or off. Mainly because if it is on or off, it won't matter due to the kill switch on the motor comes after the one on the handle bars in this process. And if the Motor mounted kill switch is not on, well the current isn't making it to its complete destination. So keep the kill switch down there on, and your handle bar kill switch will then be the only one you need... Having both does act for a good security though. If the motor mounted switch is off and someone wants to ride it and has the handle bar switch on.. They still can't start it until you flip the motor kill switch
Now if you ONLY want to use your HANDLE BAR KILL SWITCH, you'd do the same process. But you would do two cuts instead of one. Here is where you would relocate your green wire (ground wire/off wire). This way nothing is going through your motor mounted kill switch anymore and your handle bar kill switch is the ONLY switch in your line.
Hope this helps somebody out there:)
-JJ