I have both in hand. I'm in the process of completely rewiring one of our champcars with a PDM so the stock ignition harness and protections for the alternator are gone. We have been running a 4 pole with the stock chassis harness. Is a 6 pole the way to go for the new chassis harness/pdm setup? Is this rough diagram below correct? The resistor gets grounded out?
What's the hives takes on 4 pole vs 6 pole? Pros/Cons? Anything else I should take note of?
What rule set? With pdms now I just use a ground wire kill switch and program all outputs off when that input is active. On non pdm cars or wanting a redundant kill mechanism I put a high amp ssr or continuous duty solenoid on the battery feed to main power. Starter alt and battery all before the cutoff.
Paul_VR6 (Forum Supporter) said:What rule set? With pdms now I just use a ground wire kill switch and program all outputs off when that input is active. On non pdm cars or wanting a redundant kill mechanism I put a high amp ssr or continuous duty solenoid on the battery feed to main power. Starter alt and battery all before the cutoff.
Champcar. Can you break down the latter half of your statement like I'm five or show pictures LOL.
We also run in Lemons too.
I have wired our three Lemons with 6 pole switches. On the first car I didn't know about the resistor so I didn't wire it in. We killed an alternator in 2000 miles, but can't be sure it's the lack of resistor or something else. Now they all have the resistors wired in. I've read it's not important when you have a computer controlled alternator, but I don't really know.
In the 6 or so kill switches that I have installed in Lemons cars, they have all been a 6 pole that looks just like the one that Buzzboy posted, I think I got all of them from Pegasus.
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