Magura rubber covered kill button

[enduro250z]

Are the Magura kill buttons 1 or 2 wire? I have annodized handle bars so i need a separate earth but i cant see how you can connect 2 wires to the Magura button. The only way i can think of to attach the second wire is to join it under the mounting screw with a loop terminal. is this what other guys do?

 

[patgas]

one wire

the magura kill switch has one wire and earth through the handle bars, you dont need another earth it will still earth through your bars

 

[enduro250z]

My bars are annodized aluminium Renthals. Annodizing does not conduct electricity******************************************************************************** So i need 2 wires. I would also need 2 wires if my bars were painted steel because paint also does not conduct electricity.

 

[patgas]

you may think

try it mate i have powdercoate/painted bars and one wire magura and works fine

 

[enduro250z]

I dont know how that can be possible. You need a complete circuit through the switch either with a second wire or getting an earth back through the bars to the frame. You must of ground the powdercoating off backt to bare steel or alloy under the bars?

 

[patgas]

no mate

definately not removed any of the powdercoating,i know what you are saying pretty switched on with electrics and i didnt think it would work without an extra earth wire but i tried it and it does allso the bars have rubber dampners on too wich isolates from the frame,so wether its using your body as earth i dont know try it i was suprised too.magic trust me it is possible,and im not lying too you mate i have done this trust me.must be somehow tracking through bars to frame i dont know.

 

[fran...k.]

If it grounds through your body you will feel it. I have had that kill switch wire hooked up to a set of contact points, you put some non conductive piece tied to your wrist so the bike dies when you fly off. Well it is pretty easy to feel a shock similar to the coil type of feeling when in rainy weather. I wouldn't totally discount the possibility of grounding through the control cables either.

 

[oldhuskychuck]

mugura kill buttons,,,,big POS, however, iv gotten so many cheap huskies with no spark thanks to the pos rubber kill button.
on all my race bikes, iv switched to a Honda CR type button.

 

[Husky37]

My bars to are anodized and the single wire kill switch works fine but then again my handle bars are not rubber mounted.....

You can always check the resistance between the handle bars and the frame to see there is a direct earth.

Stu

 

[robertaccio]

recommendation

use 2 wire kill switch and ground to chassis. Its a much better choice. The OEM Husky late model machines use a 2 wire sw among all the other OEMS as well.
You can also find aftermarket switches, we have a bunch of shapes and sizes to choose from in the US Parts Unlimited catalog for example, so you can maintain the old school look with a more solid chassis ground.

 

[fran...k.]

mugura kill buttons,,,,big POS, however, iv gotten so many cheap huskies with no spark thanks to the pos rubber kill button.
on all my race bikes, iv switched to a Honda CR type button.

Freedom of choice, I put the old one on my 1998 model, as it came with the switches for horn lights and kill all built together. Some of them I do run a second wire. A problem seems to be you can't buy just the rubber part of that kill switch. The problem well another problem is if you crash on it and deform the spring it won't work too well until you bend the spring to approximately the origional shape.

 

[enduro250z]

This is kinda amuseing. Yes im clued up on electrics too and it cant be possible for paint or annodizing to conduct electricity. Having a 1 wire button not grounded to the bars electrically is just the same as dangling a bit of wire out along your bars. There is no complete circuit. well its a mystery to me as to how yours could work with the switch body not grounded to the bars, it defies logic. Must be magic There bust be a tiny bit of metal contacting through the powdercoat to the metal underneath.
I think im going to have to wire a second wire to it because it doesnt work with one wire unless you have chrome bars or zinc plated steel bars.

 

[oldhuskychuck]

heres one that will even bake your noodle more..
77 and up handle bare mounts are rubber mounted..no metal contact....and yet they still work.
if you keep the stock Husky kill button clean, and use a little elect, grease, they will work just fine, however, a little fuzz, and dirt, pulling on the wire, will short them out easy.
all my restored bikes have the original kill buttons, only the ones i ride and race have aftermarket buttons.

 

[wrx]

all my 80's huskys came from the factory with gold or black painted bars and magura one wire kill switches. they work fine from the factory, why wouldnt they work with ano bars????????

 

[enduro250z]

Annodizing does not conduct (flow) electricity thats why.

 

[oldhuskychuck]

i have a few bikes with anodized coated bars, all have single wire kill buttons...

 

[patgas]

see

i know i told you i wasnt lying,must earth through the bars somehow i havnt removed powdercoating,maybe when you press the kill button it starves the spark just enough when the current runs up the wire to kill the engine just magic

 

[oldhuskychuck]

its Al Gores fault i tell ya.

 

[wrx]

I'm calling BS on the your annodizing theory there enduro250z.

 

[1982 XC 430]

Given enough Amperage Electricity will pretty much pass threw anything. A good Lighting Storm can jump a pretty good gap with out a decent conductor. As said above a lot of Huskys came with Painted Bars. Take an Ohm Meter and touch it to both ends of the Bars and see what happens, Painted or Anadized.