Aerodynamic battery cut off activation.

[SPARKY]

Rob I would think about putting the switch directly in your line of sight just in front of the canopy. I would use Neal's air foil as the activator  let it have a little free play on either side of on---and
wallah you have a built in yaw indicator as well as an frt sight to point at some horizon feature. any airstream disturbance should be minimized in that position!

[jdeleon]

Javier.  Could I also use this to reset the switch or would this be a one way only thing?

I'm sure you could.  Weld a tab down off the lever,  slotted hole for cable to allow the slack to pop up.  Enough lever length to positively activate switch lever in both directions.

[jdeleon]

one more link of same style latches from mfg Avibank
http://www.avibank.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.prods&product_id=45

[Tman]

Rob,
How about welding a tab down off a hartwell latch.

I was thinking of this at my desk, I am going to play with the idea when I get home tonight.

Tman, did you come up with anything?
I was thinking of fabbing a 1.5 wide x 8" long flat rocker rocker switch that would sit flush when switch is in the on position. Maybe I can make the handle part itself extra thick (maybe 3/8" aluminum) so that it can stick up above the body work a bit then be contoured to match the body within a few thou using a flap wheel.

Playing with a hartwell latch on the desk you could easily trip a heavy duty switch with one.

[CTX-SLPR]

Pair of ideas which are closely related.

1. Have a spring loaded panel behind the main switch that allows you to get you fingers under the switch and pull it up.

2. Have a panel that you push down to trip the switch.  This could be an insert type panel that you push down and it releases the latch and pops up or a whole panel area that you mash and and it trips the switch.

Now I doubt with the stringent aerodynamic rules you are imposing that you'd want a whole panel you mash since someone might miss and dent the fuselage, but a 2x8in panel in constrasting colour that you push or has the trailing edge inset to pull and a reinforced frame would prove pretty resistant to rough handling.

[Geo]

Both those companies have flush handles that pop up and then you turn.

Geo

[Plmkrze]

Put it behind a flush mounted door, similar to the electric canopy switch or the emergency canopy jettison handle on the A7-E. Labeled properly of course.

Wow, never thought that would be needed again. (thirty years)

[Plmkrze]

What did you come up with?

[robfrey]

Still have not made a decision yet. Sort of put it on the back burner for now.

[Plmkrze]

That is understandable.  Something will pop into your head when you least expect it. 

[Jon]

+1 in the Cartek Solid State unit.

jon

[TIIILSR]

Wondering what might have come of this. Any updates?

Mike

[robfrey]

Works pretty good. I have the dxfs to make these if anybody else wants them.

[Rick Byrnes]

Where is the switch located on the car?

[robfrey]

Left hand side of the car above the wing.
So the left side of the picture is forward.