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Having had a few episodes myself with a rug bundled up under the pedal and others just having an older pot box freak out on them, I decided to bring up this topic. At night you still wants lights so you can see where you are going, so shutting off the vehicle completely was not making sense. Now, having a cut off switch from the main battery pack was a little out of reach and unfeasible (since again I wanted lights), so instead putting a cut off switch from the lead wires going to the pot box was much better. In this fashion, the power cable going to the pot box is cut, thus the two wires were extended going inside the vehicle to a switch, when the switch is up it is on, when down it is off thus no power will go to the pot box and can be an effective way to cut power to the electric motor if such an emergency happens. I still have my lights and everything else working in the car, just the motor is not going at full speed down the road.
Example:
Now when I am going down the road and I know I don't have cruise control and the car doesn't slow down when I lift my foot, something was not right. I wanted power to all my other components in the vehicle including lights at night, so just adding in a switch to cut off the power to the pot box was making more sense.
The only requirement in this fashion is using a switch that can handle the amps and the wire big enough as well to handle the flow. However, it is easy enough to rig up and be placed in an accessible spot inside the vehicle so it can be flipped to the off position when needed.
So if anyone has had trouble either mechanically or just run of the draw of having a rug bundle up under the pedal this may help solve the problem in the future.
Any questions about this just ask. I or someone else will help bring more light to this idea.
Example:
Now when I am going down the road and I know I don't have cruise control and the car doesn't slow down when I lift my foot, something was not right. I wanted power to all my other components in the vehicle including lights at night, so just adding in a switch to cut off the power to the pot box was making more sense.
The only requirement in this fashion is using a switch that can handle the amps and the wire big enough as well to handle the flow. However, it is easy enough to rig up and be placed in an accessible spot inside the vehicle so it can be flipped to the off position when needed.
So if anyone has had trouble either mechanically or just run of the draw of having a rug bundle up under the pedal this may help solve the problem in the future.
Any questions about this just ask. I or someone else will help bring more light to this idea.