2nd kill switch - Honda

rigi36 · 05 October 2013, 16:45

How easy would it be to fit a second kill switch to the console of our boat (in addition to the one already on the control box).

Example in photo below of the RYA's configuration on the youth rib boats.

The boat is used for teaching kids and the console is not in the centre meaning that the instructor does not have easy access to the kill cord.

Fitting a second would be useful.

I know you can buy the switch panels (anyone got a link?) but how easy are they to plug in? Do they just plug into the wiring loom?

It's a fairly recent BF40.

Cheers.

Chris Caton · 05 October 2013, 16:50

you should just be able to fit a 2nd kill switch and then connect into the existing wiring harness on the back of the original kill switch

rigi36 · 05 October 2013, 16:53

That sounds like a bit of a bodge though. Surely Honda have thought about this?

Chris Caton · 05 October 2013, 17:04

ah you never said you wanted a Honda part to do the job

i guess its a phone call to your local Honda dealer then, good luck with that one

SPR · 05 October 2013, 17:08

This is method we us when training youths - taken from RYA wavelength Magazine.

Means everybody can have a dual kill cord on any boat!

S.

Chris Caton · 05 October 2013, 17:36

that's looks like a great cheap option

slate1234 · 05 October 2013, 17:38

why would you want to add another thing to go wrong, +1 for above thats what I do with who ever is in my sib, two kill cords one kill switch

rigi36 · 05 October 2013, 17:43

If we did this the kill cord would be stretching across the driver.

Port Starboard

Instructor - Student - Control Box

Console is not in the middle of the boat.

SPR · 05 October 2013, 17:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by rigi36

If we did this the kill cord would be stretching across the driver. Port Starboard Instructor - Student - Control Box Console is not in the middle of the boat.

sorry - I suggest you should be sitting beside the controls - kill cord is last option - you should be able to throttle back in emergency ...

slate1234 · 05 October 2013, 18:04

why not just move the kill switch to a more conveient position and plug the existing hole with a rubber gromit, the less there is to go wrong the better I always think

rigi36 · 05 October 2013, 20:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPR

sorry - I suggest you should be sitting beside the controls - kill cord is last option - you should be able to throttle back in emergency ...

Because the console isn't in the centre of the boat.

SPR · 05 October 2013, 20:24

my console Is not in centre and if I an teaching somebody inexperience I will sit on tube next to them so I can control the boat if needed.

I am not the smallest person. 6foot 2 and over 150 kg!)

yes - I know sitting on tubes are not the in thing!

S.

wavelength · 05 October 2013, 20:36

your posts suggest you have an instructor sitting alongside a student and that the control box is on the far side of the consol from the instructor and he is unable to reach it?
I'll be running an instructor course later this week and one bit of paper to show our guys will be a diagram of a scenario from a few years ago where a youngster was killed after his boat was rammed by another on the same (non-rya)course.
The instructor was not adjacent to the control box and that was seen as a major factor in the fatality and something to be avoided at all costs. Don't just faff about with another kill switch, move the control box, it is not a safe setup for training as it is!