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Guest Battery
Switches
Take a look inside a typical battery switch and you'll find
small, spring-loaded 'line contacts' that provide the electrical
gateway to your system. These line-contact designs provide a very
small conductive area for high current flow, resulting in critical
wear, carbon tracking and contact burns over time. At Guest, they
understand the key to long, efficient switch life is large contact
surface area.
That's why Guest switches feature an
innovative 'sweep contact' design, which provides a large, flat
surface area for maximum conductivity and efficiency, without
the excessive wear, carbon tracking and contact burns of inferior
line-contact designs. All Guest battery switches safely provide
positive battery disconnect, isolate all circuits, and conform to
U.S.C.G. safety standard 183.410 for ignition protection.
Guest Battery Switches Features
- Heavy-duty
copper sweep contacts.
- Positive
click-stop on all positions.
- Built-in
skirt protects connections.
- "Make
before break" contacts allow selection of all positions
except "off" while engine is running.
- Alternator
Field Disconnect (AFD) models allow selection of any position,
including "off", without damage to alternator or
electrical system.
- For
6, 12, 24 and 32 volt systems.
- Marine
UL Listed.*
- Momentary
ratings are for five minutes continuous.
- 1
year limited warranty.
Guest 'sweep' contacts are just
better
Guest's smooth, flat 'sweep' contacts provide up to 60% more contact
area than inferior line-contact designs. The contacts are 'machined'
to guarantee an electrically sound path, while line-contact designs
suffer from a lack of matched contact surfaces, leading to arcing
and excessive carbon tracking.
Guest contacts also provide a unique, self-cleaning sweep every time
the switch is used, maintaining a matched contact area for maximum
efficiency and long life.
To select the proper battery
switch size, make sure your engine's cold cranking amperage is lower
than the momentary rating of the switch. When using switches with
outboards or alternators with internal voltage regulators, be sure
to choose a switch without alternator field disconnect.
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