I have a 2002 Pantera 550, I would like to install a safety tether on it. I can't figure out which wire that I need to install this into. I thought it was the purple one coming off the kill switch but I wired it in temporally but it stayed running. Before I cut a wrong wire, I was hoping that someone with better wiring knowledge could guide me in the right direction.
patrick.bartrum
Safety Tether Wiring Install Help
Arctic Cats are normally open systems, ensure you have the correct tether for that style of wiring.
I normally tag a tether 2 pin into the key switch wiring, the connector is usually similar to that of the tether itself or can be modified on the tether side to avoid any modification of the OEM wiring.
I normally tag a tether 2 pin into the key switch wiring, the connector is usually similar to that of the tether itself or can be modified on the tether side to avoid any modification of the OEM wiring.
Faffix,
Forgive me because I am no electronics tech, I know just enough to be dangerous. The tether I bought, With the tether line attached, I get current going through it according to my ohms meter. I hope that's for a open system. You wire your's it to the key switch wiring. I thought the same thing after my test failed yesterday. I realized that the kill switch actually stops the motor by grounding it out. My issue now is my key switch plugs into a round pigtail, Do I need to follow that line down to find the connecters you plug into? or will I need to cut and splice into the power wire in the pigtail?
Thanks for your assistance, All this just to be a little safer!! LOL
Forgive me because I am no electronics tech, I know just enough to be dangerous. The tether I bought, With the tether line attached, I get current going through it according to my ohms meter. I hope that's for a open system. You wire your's it to the key switch wiring. I thought the same thing after my test failed yesterday. I realized that the kill switch actually stops the motor by grounding it out. My issue now is my key switch plugs into a round pigtail, Do I need to follow that line down to find the connecters you plug into? or will I need to cut and splice into the power wire in the pigtail?
Thanks for your assistance, All this just to be a little safer!! LOL
OK. My suggestion (from one guy that hates cutting factory wiring with a PASSION) is to buy one of these.
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Using the diagram available here
https://support.countrycat.com/posts/2797067-2002-snow-wiring-diagrams
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I would fire up the machine and using a jumper wire connect the purple to the brown wire or the purple wire to chassis somewhere and see if the machine dies.
Following that logic if you plug a 3 way trailer plug in the middle as an extension, you can do all of your splicing and cutting in that little extension to make sure everything works and is reversible if you want it to be. Also allows you to perform the wiring, shrink tubing install, heating, soldering however you want to deal with it not under the hood of the machine hunched over and struggling.
On newer machines there's usually a 2 pin plug near the ignition to add a tether, or on my M7 the ignition is just a 2 pin trailer plug and i plugged my tether into it.
Using the diagram available here
https://support.countrycat.com/posts/2797067-2002-snow-wiring-diagrams
I would fire up the machine and using a jumper wire connect the purple to the brown wire or the purple wire to chassis somewhere and see if the machine dies.
Following that logic if you plug a 3 way trailer plug in the middle as an extension, you can do all of your splicing and cutting in that little extension to make sure everything works and is reversible if you want it to be. Also allows you to perform the wiring, shrink tubing install, heating, soldering however you want to deal with it not under the hood of the machine hunched over and struggling.
On newer machines there's usually a 2 pin plug near the ignition to add a tether, or on my M7 the ignition is just a 2 pin trailer plug and i plugged my tether into it.
Farris
That looks like it just might work, I will let you how. It comes out. I’m going to do it Saturday if I can get the jumper soon enough.
thanks again for all your help.
That looks like it just might work, I will let you how. It comes out. I’m going to do it Saturday if I can get the jumper soon enough.
thanks again for all your help.
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