300/440/550 nice start/stop switches on ebay ..

[ang4th]

Just bought a few off this guy and they arrived today . Nicely packed , nice switches . Brand new with lanyards also has a intermitant button for a bilge I was thinking .. I may use it on a second bilge onmy X2 or on a stand up that doesnt take on a lot of water .. since button would haveto be held to keep bilge on ..

thought I would pass it on .. nice switches for cheap I think ...

 

[sflsurfrider]

are they yami connectors? how long is the harness? do you have a link to the ebay auction/BINs?

 

[ang4th]

Here is his current auction , the last one ended at 35 or a little more I think .
Not sure if they are yamaha conections they do look like the connections that came off my kawasaki SS . I was planning on splicing them in with barell conetors and/or using shrink tube.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...RK:MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=170083371245&rd=1,1

if anyone knows what the original switches came from post a reply .

 

[professor961]

They look nice. I see he has 100 available. I might buy one. Hey ang - does the switch have the plastic knub in the bore to align with the hole in the handlebar or is it just a gripper? Know what I mean? Let us know. Thanks Prof

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Which laynard type,yami or Kawi?

 

[ang4th]

plastic knub , probably still work as gripper .. lanyard and conections look like newer kawi type

 

[showmepro1200]

Looks like the late 90's early 00's Polaris switches. I have the same thing on my Pro1200. But I know that some of the mfrs used a very similar setup around that time.

Where it says "primer" is the bilge button on the Pro.

 

[Mouthfulloflake]

I bought a switch identical to that years ago from EBAY.

I asked the seller before hand if the switch was momentary or not, he said that it was not. so I bid, won, and got it.

and of course the switch is MOMENTARY.

you have to hold it in for the bilge to work, so Ive never used the switch at all, its a back up start/stop I guess.

 

[yamanube]

A non-momentary primer switch wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[Mouthfulloflake]

Mine was sold, advertised and labled as a "bilge" switch.

just for clarification.

DUH on the primer switch.

A non-momentary primer switch wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.

 

[yamanube]

Gotcha

 

[Mouthfulloflake]

I would be curious to see an electric primer setup if thats what polaris boats use.

that seems like an odd idea.

 

[yamanube]

Sounds like one more thing to go wrong..

 

[djkorn1]

They do look like the Polaris switches and I believe that they are Kawi adaptable.

 

[showmepro1200]

Yes its momentary. And on a sit-down thats all you should need. I have to say I have never had to pump water out of the bilge in my Pro in 4 years of ownership.

I'll say one thing for Polaris - at least the bilge works w/o the machine running - I happened upon a guy with a sinking XP one afternoon and asked the guy why he wasn't using his bilge to keep afloat (he had rolled it) He looked at me like I was the crazy one and said he couldn't get the motor to start so he couldn't use the bilge pump. Blew my mind. What a dumb way to wire the pump.

Anyway, I went off topic there. The switches, if they fit your needs, are probably very good quality. Never had a miss, like my SN Yami switch I had to replace Sounds like a good price too.

 

[Snackem]

I might be wrong but wouldn't a switch be universal? I mean couldn't you wire a Yamaha SJ with a Kawi or Polaris switch if you wanted to?

 

[yamanube]

I would think they should be universal (just have to cut off the standard connectors) but I was wondering if you can put a start/stop with a teather on a ski that didnt originally have one?

 

[Snackem]

I think that if you had a good two bold clamp that you could attach the switch to then you could put it on any bar that the clamp would fit around.

 

[ang4th]

I think the momentary bilge would also be usefull when using a second bilge or as a back up on my 750 .. i dont do sub after sub so it would be great !
and of course you can put it on a ski that never had a tether before .. I like the idea of my x2 having it on when i let newbie goobers try my ski .. if i dont want to always use it I can warp it around the bars

 

[Snackem]

I was thinking the same thing. It would be nice to have the lanyard there as an option.