So an outboard has a kill switch that is attached by a lanyard and a clip to the operator of the outboard motor boat.
If the operator is jettisoned from the boat in an accident it turns the outboard off as it separates the circuit as it is pulled off of the outboard ~kill switch bastion point.
All well and good.
But there out to be a way to wire that outboard kill switch into the boats horn! Whereby at the same time the outboard is stopped the horn gives the mayday or distress signal intermittently.
Often modern outboard can connect to depth sounder electronics and display outboard status.
But perhaps there should be two or three dedicated wires coming from the outboard, in conjunction to the kill switch, to the ships horn?
For example, say a man is all alone on the water and is jettisoned from the boat, that distress horn might help people know that event is going on?
And I don't know how fancy I could get with this. But perhaps hooked into an marine radio circuit too? I don't know what the rate of false alarms would be, variables, etc. And basically that would all need to be foul-proofed in order to prevent help resources from responding to false alarms.
But perhaps there is a simple way to do the initial idea? Put two clips at the end of the lanyard. One going to a same type mechanism, however that activates the distress horn? Now that would be too hard to wire up. That secondary mounted to the tiller in a spot not of interference. Separate wiring tucked in and zipped in place. In terms of the activation circuit that could do the dot dot dot dash dash dash. etc. That would be something they could mass produce in China for a penny and integrate into the circuit. Either behind the switch or simple streamlined module on wire.
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And the switch has to create/energize the circuit when tripped. I knew that. Perhaps some have different wiring options in them. But I believe there would be a way utilizing off the shelf switch in conjunction with another type of e device.
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