Suggestions for kill switch wiring
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This is so much easier https://www.quadratec.com/products/15001_1000.htm You can make your own with some wire and a relay if you're on a tight budget. It interrupts the ASD circuit and all you have to do to complete the circuit is provide momentary power which then closes the relay and energizes the ASD relay. The kit comes with a magnetic reed switch or you can simply use a hidden momentary switch.
Assuming you want this for theft prevention?
Here's an idea - a cheap and easy workaround - that I have thought about trying. (Still have not done it...)
All of my vehicles have this kind of quick-release connector on the negative terminal:
If I leave the vehicle parked for more than a couple of days, I always remove the negative terminal to prevent battery drain with all of the modern crap on vehicles. I have, more than once, gone to start a vehicle after an extended period of sitting only to find a drained battery.
These come in pairs - one red and one black, of course - and I use the red one if the black one is already in use. For this trick, I could use the red as the actual negative clamp and use the black one as the decoy.
I have though about setting up a dummy terminal clamp that I could leave on the battery to look like it was connected. It would have the cable coming off of it and going down behind the battery. The actual negative terminal clamp would be disconnected and hidden behind or beneath the battery. Anything but a careful inspection would give the appearance of being hooked up. Not entirely fool-proof, but maybe enough.
It's what, down here, we'd call a mexicanada.
A well hidden kill switch would be easier for you to engage as opposed to going under the hood, and harder to bypass, but this way I figure most people would just take a look and think that it just won't start, so not worth the trouble. Most thieves are thieves because they are stupid and lazy, right?
Here's an idea - a cheap and easy workaround - that I have thought about trying. (Still have not done it...)
All of my vehicles have this kind of quick-release connector on the negative terminal:
If I leave the vehicle parked for more than a couple of days, I always remove the negative terminal to prevent battery drain with all of the modern crap on vehicles. I have, more than once, gone to start a vehicle after an extended period of sitting only to find a drained battery.
These come in pairs - one red and one black, of course - and I use the red one if the black one is already in use. For this trick, I could use the red as the actual negative clamp and use the black one as the decoy.
I have though about setting up a dummy terminal clamp that I could leave on the battery to look like it was connected. It would have the cable coming off of it and going down behind the battery. The actual negative terminal clamp would be disconnected and hidden behind or beneath the battery. Anything but a careful inspection would give the appearance of being hooked up. Not entirely fool-proof, but maybe enough.
It's what, down here, we'd call a mexicanada.
A well hidden kill switch would be easier for you to engage as opposed to going under the hood, and harder to bypass, but this way I figure most people would just take a look and think that it just won't start, so not worth the trouble. Most thieves are thieves because they are stupid and lazy, right?
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I've also heard of people putting an old style headlight dimmer switch, which are still sold at parts stores, on the floor for a kill switch. Together with your manual shift that should prevent most Millennials and Gen Z s from figuring out how to steal it.
The problem with a kill switch is you have to remember to switch it off when you park. Then, when you have left the Jeep, you will say to yourself "did I switch the kill switch off?". I do this all the time with my alarm, can't remember if I set it or not sometimes. With the relay solution, every time you switch off the key the relay drops out, it's totally automatic.
Because my TJ can sit for a while and the parasitic drain will kill the battery I installed a cut off switch on the battery. I put them on my other vehicles that sit for long periods. Less than $10 online.
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