Jérôme» cut off http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog Half robot, half g33k. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 My main power switch http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/10/my-main-power-switch/ http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/10/my-main-power-switch/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:37:10 +0000 Jerome http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/?p=370 I just got this nice little cut off switch. The problem I had, is not having a nice and asthetic way to power my scooter. I had some dean connectors coming out of a hole and connected those wire together. No really nice seeing wire coming out. A member of the VamUdeS told me where I could find this neat little device: http://www.rctoys.com/rc-toys-and-parts/MPI-ARMING-SWITCH/RC-PARTS-CONNECTORS-WIRING.html They use that cut off to remove power to the main motor on there plane. A very safe way to know that you motor will go turn on, when you are checking under the hood. I use this device because I could not find a normal switch that could handle 40Amp and + of power without melting.

The “real” name is Battery Arming Switch ( Safely Arm and Disarm your RC ) Product number is MAXX 6970. This will be the main “switch” to power the entire scooter. The concept is very simple, you have a little loop of wire on the end of a connector. When you plug it in the other end, it close the electric path and current can now flow to the controller and motor.

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The only draw back of this cut off it the wire gauge is only 14AWG. It will work but one day I will probably need to go with 10AWG to make sure the wire will not get hot, meaning lossing precious energy in heat.

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