Has anyone wired one of their spod switches to act as a kill switch? Trying to conceptualize how to best do something like this.

 

I have not heard of anything but looking at the sPOD schematics it will be difficult since all the switches are integrated into the mother board. I would suggest running a seperate kill switch.

 

Yeah that's what I'm figuring. I guess I could take off the switch panel and manually disconnect the switch prewiring, but... would there be any problems doing this. None right?

 

What I'd ultimately like to do is make it a kill switch, but something that I could switch off immediately after starting the engine. That way I don't have to keep the switch on all the time. Maybe something tied into the starter. Ugh my brain is exploding. Or maybe it's the St Patrick's day beer flowing nice and right!!!!

 

Uhhh just run a switch between the battery and the Spod? Not rocket science....




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that mit make perfect sense to u but...

 

Well seeing that 1 of the main advantages to running the SPod board is it's LVCO circuit to save your battery, I'd like to see what you come up with.....


Take a look at some of the older posts from 14Sport. He hasn't been posting as much as he used to but I'm 99.9% positive he rigged something up, but he used an external switch that he mounted to the Spod overhead switch housing. Basically between battery and Spod....




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They must have made some changes to the sPOD controller because mine has no "mother board". It's just discrete switches, and I've rewired mine to suit my purposes. The black button, which used to turn on the switch backlighting, now disables/enables all switch functions (thus allowing me to keep someone from reaching up as we're tooling down the highway and pressing a switch while asking, "What are front lockers?"). The backlighting is now wired into the dash lighting dimmer circuit.



Anyway, to OP's question: You could wire one of the switches to an external latching relay. Put that switch on and the latching relay activates, making the connection for however you intend to disable the engine. Turn the switch off and the relay stays engaged until a second, ignition-switched power source is removed.

 

Yup. External only logical way I see it being done especially after digging into it and installing my own contura switches. I can see how it might be done but not sure why anyone would want to use up an actual switch when 6 is barely enough....









"mother board" old but still being used....


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I used one of same switches that come on the S-Pod for a kill switch. All i did was break the ground to the fuel pump. I think they are Carlon switches.