Icing up toggles and kill switch?

Gotmud

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• Dec 31, 2017

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I'm a long time Polaris rider, this is my first skidoo. My first 3 day weekend was all over the hood deep powder and below 10 degrees. I liked the toggles on the dash for the hand warmers and lights, way easier to find than Polaris. I was shocked to find they keep freezing with ice and I couldn't toggle them? My kill switch froze in the down position. Now it works intermittently and has even died while riding. Anyone else have this problem?

 

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• Dec 31, 2017

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I had mine buried in Powder all last week and never had a problem. I wrap a rubber band underneath my kill switch, so it never gets far enough down to malfunction. Do the switches freeze over night, or when your riding?

 

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• Dec 31, 2017

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My hand warmers are on high 24/7 and you would never know it because they suck so I never play with the switch. But I turn my kill switch over so it points down and never had a problem. Mostly did this to keep it from hitting tree branches and killing the sled


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• Dec 31, 2017

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Last year my buddies grip heat switch froze up overnight once, he had to ride with burning hot hands for ~20 minutes til the switch thawed and he could turn the grip heaters down.

 

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I had them freeze both over night and while riding. I did rotate the kill switch slightly forward as I have a tendency to hit kill with my chest. I think the switch is malfunctioned and I'm going to replace it. Hand warmers were damned near burning my hands once and I had to stop and use my hands and breath to defrost the toggle to turn them down? Guess I just assumed others would have the problem.

 

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Hand and light swich froze all the time last year!

 

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• Jan 1, 2018

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Hand warmer and light switch gets iced up almost every time I get out riding, when I stop I can usually clear the ice away after sitting for a bit and make any adjustments required. As far as the kill switch I kept hitting it accidentally while riding, and usually at the most inconvenient time, I ended up installing a momentary kill switch from Munster. Also installed hand guards because all that snow also freezes up the gloves.

 

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My toggle switches have iced making them hard to use. Haven’t had the problem with the kill switch yet