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Re: [Spridgets] Kill Switches

To: mdrowe@optonline.net, Spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Kill Switches
From: WeslakeMonza1330--- via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 18:03:16 -0400
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Full-name: WeslakeMonza1330
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It's time to find a new mechanic/tutor because he is wrong.  
 
Any car, including any racing car, may be positive earth or negative  
earth.  Irrespective of which terminal is earth you need to wire the kill  
switch 
on the live.  You also need a proper FIA kill switch which you wire  the 
ignition through otherwise you don't have a kill switch you have a battery  
master switch which won't kill the engine if the car has an alternator or  
dynamo.  Yep, no resistor in the kill switch circuit and you fry the  
alternator rectifier dioide pack - none of us ever does that twice.
 
Regards
 
Daniel
 
 
In a message dated 14/05/2016 15:22:18 GMT Daylight Time,  
spridgets@autox.team.net writes:

I have  been doing a lot of reading on kill switches.  My mechanic/tutor 
(who is  never, ever, ever, wrong) insists that they should be on the ground 
wire,  which is how they are done on race cars.  

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