Polaris sportsman efi twin, 2006 model. I have bought a normally closed tether switch and need to know what wire to slice into to get this thing to work. Wife needs to race this thing friday. HELP please!!!!!!!!!!!! I have cut 5 wires that I thought it would work and know have five resoldered and heat shrinked wires in the headlight pod! EEK!

 

guessing, but did try hooking or testing it in the kill switch?

 

Switch tests fine. I clipped the wires while it was running and knew I was screwed when the quad did not shut off. All wires I tried came from the left handle bar OFF/RUN/OFF switch. Once I had them all 4 cut iw ould shut off. But the switch is only one wire in and one wire out. I'm obviously not choosing the correct place to fashion to hook this up.

 

i havent had one apart but if its a simple grounding out set up, you should be able to hook it to the kill switch somehow i would think. you would have to do some differnt hook ups to see if it worked i would guess. like i said just an idear.

 

Maybe OPT will chime in here, but in a 2007 700 twin manual it appears that the Kill is configured as a 2pdt in run position on connection is open and one is closed and when in either off position the opposite is true.
It appears that the power is connected through the Kill and lack of a ground is used in the other pole.

When you set to off, it breaks power on the one pole and simultaneously appears to apply ground to multiple items including the ECU.

My guess is that you would need to duplicate that action to ensure you don't toast something.

 

What if I take a slightly different route and just kill the 12v supply wire to the ignition key? Yellow wire I believe.

 

I suppose you could take that approach. That seems to kill all the electrical.
I don't know Polaris electrical and the schematic I am looking at is for a 700/800.

The one thought, is if once the system is up and running, does the Alternator still supply juice to everything and could it still once you cut the ignition power. I question that based on the double kill method I see. Cutting power and grounding the system through another set of wiring.

Guess it is worth a try, but I would be careful as they chose that double system for a reason.

 

Well finally got that switch wired in. Allthough it will work a litttle different than expected. EMGO which is the manufacturer of the tether switch, does not make a normally close tether switch. The dealership checked a different manufacturer and they did not either. SO, they were nice enough to investigate it for me and let me know how to wire it up. In the headlight pod coming off the back side of the the speedo there is a solid black wire. I was told to strip back the wire withought cutting the wire and attach one side of the tether switch to it and and the other side of the tether goes to ground. This grounds the ECM I was told and the quad will go into idle mode if the throttle is not being touched. If the throttle is still being held even partially open by the time the motor returns to idle RPM the motor will shut off. I would have rather just found a normally closed swtich and wired it into the constant hot on the back of the ignition key but without any time left to find a NC switch I had to do what I had to do. Thanks for all your guys help.