Pro armor tether failure

Colbymh · Mar 21, 2019

Guess I have to eat crow.. lots of people saying how ****ty the pro armor tether is and it came true yesterday. I was side hilling and went to turn up hill and fell off.. sled stayed running while my tether was attached to me.

Called pro armor and they said its outside of 90 days so owell. Was 46 degrees, sunny, no snow or ice on it, etc.

Sheetmetalfab · Mar 21, 2019

Hopefully nobody got hurt.

Colbymh · Mar 21, 2019

Thankfully just my pride of thinking I had a good kill switch.

nosman4 · Mar 21, 2019

You can take them apart and clean the contact pretty easily, I did it with mine and put a very light coat of dielectric grease on them and they have worked flawlessly for 3 years.
Ian

Colbymh · Mar 21, 2019

I will do that, thnx.. but if after 5 rides, it fails, its a POS.

nosman4 · Mar 21, 2019

Just don't put too much grease on there, or it won't work at all. You could use something like wd-40 too, if you put too much grease it won't make contact when cold. Ask me how I know....
Ian

BILTIT · Mar 21, 2019

Mine broke when i rolled the sled over in its second year, i put a polaris tether on and havent had a lick of trouble.

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Teth-Air · Mar 21, 2019

Buy a Laser Phantom Teth-Air and we will give you a year normal warranty but we go well beyond a year if it is something that failed shouldn't have. Basically we cover everything but obvious physical damage.

Colbymh · Mar 21, 2019

It looks cool as hell, but $300 is no joke.

Sheetmetalfab · Mar 22, 2019

Colbymh said:
Thankfully just my pride of thinking I had a good kill switch.

Pingle makes a billet aluminum tether for $110.

Bulletproof.

Norway · Mar 22, 2019

Sheetmetalfab said:
Pingle makes a billet aluminum tether for $110.

Bulletproof.

Seems sturdy alright, but metal in metal? I think freezing..

Here's an idea; find a two pin connector that can take a lot of use and combine with pigtail wire. Make a tether that powers a strong helmet light and keeps the ignition going!

Fall off and you cut power to sled by pulling the plug out of the socket.

Polaris? Cat? Doo? Anyone??

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Sheetmetalfab · Mar 22, 2019

Norway said:
Seems sturdy alright, but metal in metal? I think freezing..

Here's an idea; find a two pin connector that can take a lot of use and combine with pigtail wire. Make a tether that powers a strong helmet light and keeps the ignition going!

Fall off and you cut power to sled by pulling the plug out of the socket.

Polaris? Cat? Doo? Anyone??

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The mechanism is fully sealed with a very stiff spring.

They always work.

mountainhorse · Mar 22, 2019

The cat magnetic tether, to me, is the best solution for a kill switch...

My 2¢

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willjogervais · Mar 22, 2019

mountainhorse said:
The cat magnetic tether, to me, is the best solution for a kill switch...

My 2¢

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This^^^^^^^^^^

Madtown · Mar 22, 2019

mountainhorse said:
The cat magnetic tether, to me, is the best solution for a kill switch...

My 2¢

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Agree. Will be installing one over summer to replace my Polaris tether. Friend just broke his Pro Armor last weekend. He is switching to Cat magnetic as well.

sledheadd · Mar 22, 2019

Sheetmetalfab said:
The mechanism is fully sealed with a very stiff spring.

They always work.

I have the Pingle tether on 2 sleds and a Pro Armor one on the other sled both have worked flawlessly for me. Now that being said I have heard of the Pingle freezing up on some,and I have seen the clips breaking on the pro Armor,some also have had issues with it not working when needed.
My next tether will be the cat magnetic one,they just work.

Jaynelson · Mar 22, 2019

Never had much luck with that style tether from any brand.

Colbymh · Mar 22, 2019

I will also be switching to the magnetic.. for now I am being shipped a replacement.

rp2000r · Mar 22, 2019

Colbymh said:
Guess I have to eat crow.. lots of people saying how ****ty the pro armor tether is and it came true yesterday. I was side hilling and went to turn up hill and fell off.. sled stayed running while my tether was attached to me.

Called pro armor and they said its outside of 90 days so owell. Was 46 degrees, sunny, no snow or ice on it, etc.

Same thing happened to my Pro Armor tether this season. I will take apart and try and fix but may go a different route. Also happened in a bad area on a steep hill but no damage was done.

Colbymh · Mar 22, 2019

Seems to be a theme.

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