Smoke. Melted/blown fuse on antispark switch. What happened here?

Short answer is ”absolutely not"

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Long Answer:

The list of peeps lookin’ for those fuckers is long and distinguished ahead of you…

pack a lunch!

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He’s never coming back. Ditch the anti-spark and get a loopkey.

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I mean antisparks can work, just don’t get the cheap FlipSky ones from way back, and don’t abuse them

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and don’t get the old vedder switches.

Could just make yourself a kick-ass loopkey holder. Mine looks like a lawn mower handle :joy:

best antispark / eswitch ever is the 300A Flier. 5 fets and a heat sink. Even Jake can keep them working for multiple years.

This guy?

Makes me wonder. What’s the switch in Lonestar?

Is that the LunaCycle one basically?

Yeah that looks like it.

I can understand how the antispark switch works, but I am rather new to this, and I don’t even know what a loopkey is. Lol.

What would abusing it look like exactly?

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I see. I really like this. I really don’t like the idea of trying to solder on a circuit board. This seems so much simpler. Thanks for sharing this. Are there any drawbacks of this vs. an antispark switch/power button?

the only drawback of a loopkey that I can think of would be, needing to find a place to hold the loopkey for physical access and looking pretty at the same time.

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Yes, what @frame said. The biggest disadvantage of a loopkey is appearance.

Best you can do is epoxy the male end (the one with prongs) into the board somewhere

The best looking photos I have seen are when folks mount them up near the trucks somewhere, or in the hole on a drop-through deck that’s been top mounted

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Would you just have to connect the positive/ground wire ends to some connectors? I’m assuming it comes with the wires and the switch soldered on.

the button has a connector and the last several I got had tinned leads on the inputs and outputs.

Well dadgum. It’s a shame it will take over a month to ship. Gonna have to figure out something out between now and then.