tom111

Hi,

I just installed the remote ignition kill switch in my FG MT, according to your experience do you know if I can put the kill switch (the “brain” - yellow pack) together with the receiver in the receiver box? Or it might cause to interference and should be outside of the receiver box, separated from the receiver?

Thanks,
Tom

tom111

Anyone is using this remote kill switch??? [sm=confused.gif]

Thanks,
Tom

jtnktz

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IF I were to put a kill witch I would just have servo do it instead of buying a whole new system. Would be pretty easy.

John H (DK)

I have put mine inside the recieverbox in my Hpi Baja, directly on the Spektrum-reciever, no problem.

tom111

Hi John,

Finally someone could help me ,I guess most of the guys here don’t use this remote kill switches but after my last accident I had to buy one!
Anyway, if it works well for you then I will give it a try, I just didn’t want to face some interferences…

Thank you!
Tom

gunner221

i'm using this one and its fantastic so easy to do as well
[link=http://www.hpibajaforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18549]here[/link]

Dirby

ok here's the Deal.
Diemaster is making a kill switch from a pico switch and it will do anything you want it to do as far as killing the engine.
turn off tx engine dies
turn off rx engine dies
remove tx batt engine dies
broken wire engine dies
Baja get out of range engine dies
engine can be killed from trim switch on tx
if you are running wide open and your throttle servo dies in wide open throttle you can kill the engine by turning the tx off or useing the trim swiotch and that will kill the engine.
one word of caution though
you must have the tx and rx turned on otherwise you will never get the engine started.
i shut my engine off one day useing the trim switch and didn't reset the trim switch and i could not figure out why the engine wouldn't start.
once i re set the trim switch it started right up.
the radio i am useing is the m11 with airtronics 2.4 gig modgule and rx.
this kill switch will not work with a two channel radio the radio has to be three or four channels.
DDM is suppose to be getting some of theese Diemaster pico kill switches in maby sometime next week
i highley recomend them
i have been useing theese for over a month now and they work flawlessly.
i got the first two that Diemaster made and they are worth every penny i spent on them
this should be the very first hop up that anybody gets for there Baja along with a good three channel radio
any questions e mail me at
dwilkinson911@yahoo .com
thx Don

gunner221

yer all of what Dirby say's, I run mine on a spektrum DX3.0

tom111

Tnx Don! Do you know if I can put the kill switch in the receiver box next to the receiver, or it might cause to interference?

gunner221

HI here are some pic's of my install hope it helps & i don't see any interferance

The pico switch is fitted in the bottom left hand corner held in place with hot glue.


from a different angle you can see that i have drilled a small hole in the box this is so that you can see the light status when you need to


Here you can see the light hole and the light is lit (green)

tom111

Thank you gunner221! This is exactly how I installed mine today, I hope I won’t face any radio interferences, if to be honest, I also asked FG’s technicians for the same question and they told me not to put them together (receiver + kill switch), I was a bit skeptic and that’s why I wanted to see if this works in other cars.

I guess if it works for you than I should face no issues... [sm=teeth_smile.gif]

Thanks for the pics!

Dirby

i have two of them.
one in each Baja i have.
one mounted inside the radio box and one mounted inside the flywheel case.
so far no interference on ether of them yet
Don

Inntcptr

Hey tom111, mind if I ask where you got the kill switch from, and will that one work with a 2 ch radio. I'm just looking to kill the motor by turning off the tx in case a servo goes out on me. Any help would be great, thanks

tom111

Hi,

I got it here:

http://bcmaengines.com/Accessories.htm

but it will for sure won’t work with a 2 channel receiver, those kill switches needs their own channel (usually the 3rd channel), they are connected to the receiver with the same plug the servo has, so if you have only 2 channels you just don’t have place for that.

Dirby

also the switch will have to be conected to the kill switch that is on the motor.
i disconected both the kill switches that are on the engines in both of my Baja's
i can kill the engine from the tx nomatter where the Baja is.
thx Dirby
this only works with 3 or 4 channel radios two channel will not work

tom111

I did the same setup but I left the manual kill switch on, incase of “electronic malfunction” I can kill the engine in the “old way”.

Dirby

tom111
if you get any kind of an electrical malfunction the motor id going to quit nomatter what happens,
Dirby
where as if you leave the kill switch that is on the engine hooked up and the wire drom the rx to the kill switch comes un pluged or btakes than the only way you will be able to kill the engine is to use the one on the engine.
now if that switch is disconected the engine will die if anything happens.
Does this make sense to you?
Dirby
this was brought to my attention by Diemaster who made theese two switches for me

tom111

Sorry but I’m not convinced [sm=confused.gif] lets take a case where you don’t have a remote ignition kill switch & you don’t have the manual kill switch – in fact you don’t have a kill switch at all, according to what you say the engine will die and won’t work, but that is not the case, it will work without a kill switch connected, you just won’t have a way to kill it.

The manual kill switch when is not pressed, is doing absolutely nothing, that’s why I prefer to have them both.

John H (DK)

Yuo can always kill the engine with the choke , that is , if you have one

gunner221

I also left my kill switch in line on the enigine.

belt and braces

tom111

My current setup – is both the remote kill switch & the manual kill switch & it works great – “better to be safe than sorry”

borley1863

Hi does anybody know on my 3rd channel on my Spektrum DX3, should i choose the LN,3P or 0 option to use it as to kill the engine?
I have the battleswitch by the way which mentions something about 2P on 3rd channel!
Thanks
Guy

gunner221

can't remember what mine is set to but you will know when its right as the handset bleeps on mine everytime i press the 3ch button.

splcrazy

is dx3r a 3ch ? i wonder if i can install a kill switch on mine , what button is the 3ch button on my dx3r ?

borley1863

yeah thats what the 3 means there is a dx2 2 channel, mines the normal dx3 not the newer version which i think you have and the 3rd channel is button A