• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

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Kill switch functionality, normally open or closed?

J

Jornum1

Husqvarna
B Class
I probably know the answer to my question, but I want to confirm.

My 06 te450 was converted to enduro and was completely stripped down. It did not come with a stock start/kill switch. It was kick only and only had a momentary kill switch.

I bought a aftermarket kill/start switch and am trying to wire it up.

It looks like the 12v coming in orange/white runs to both the kill toggle and the momentary start, correct?
The kill switch is normally open, and when you close the circuit it kills the ignition, correct?

I just want to confirm I have this right before I button everything up nice and neat.

The switch I bought is opposite though, closed is labeled as run and open is labeled as kill. I can probably swap the wires inside to make it read correctly. I hope!

Thanks in advance,
Jay
 
I figured it out, thought I would post what I found just for reference if anyone else searches the topic and this thread comes up.

Towards the end of the electrical section in the workshop manual is a schematic for the handlebar switches.

Basically if all 3 wires are all open the bike is in "run". If you cross the Blue and yellow/white that is kill. Blue and orange/white is start. So yes my kill switch reads backwards because it was made for a typical street bike whose kun/kill switch connection usually needs to be closed to function. Apparenty dirt bikes are the opposite(and most other simple engines).
The same is on my friends honda, he calls it added theft protection!
I was so used to street bikes it didnt occur to me that dirt bikes are like a lawn mower or other small engines.
 
No worries. I understand a lot of the vets get tired of responding to the newb questions(or just maybe no one knew). I have been around for a couple years, but have not posted very much until now.
I have no problem putting my dues in as I learn more.

Hopefully this will help someone along the way.
 
Jornum1 said:
I figured it out, thought I would post what I found just for reference if anyone else searches the topic and this thread comes up.

Towards the end of the electrical section in the workshop manual is a schematic for the handlebar switches.

Basically if all 3 wires are all open the bike is in "run". If you cross the Blue and yellow/white that is kill. Blue and orange/white is start. So yes my kill switch reads backwards because it was made for a typical street bike whose kun/kill switch connection usually needs to be closed to function. Apparenty dirt bikes are the opposite(and most other simple engines).
The same is on my friends honda, he calls it added theft protection!
I was so used to street bikes it didnt occur to me that dirt bikes are like a lawn mower or other small engines.
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Thanks for the info. I have a keyed ignition switch I was planning on hooking up to the kill circuit, but wasn't sure if it would be N\O or N\C. :thumbsup: :cheers:
 
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