2018 Polaris 570 Sportman lost all power....

[jwline]

Friday evening went riding, rode for a good hour or so everything was fine. I went to take a short ride to the restroom (less than 100 yds away) and all of the sudden everything flickered and then just died out. Accompanying the problem I noticed the killswitch completely locked up. Once daylight hit took the killswitch apart to find it had shorted out and melted the plastic inside. Has anyone else had anything similar to this and if so what did you do to fix the situation? I have a new killswitch on the way to replace the obvious problem but was wondering could there be a bigger issue at hand. We tested with a voltage meter to make sure everything was still getting power from the battery and as far as we could tell it was.

Any advice/info would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks.

[Impala_ss]

If it shorted itself out it sounds like there was a bad ground somewhere.  Look for loose or damaged wires associated with the kill switch.  Only thing I can think of.

[JacobSlabach]

unless the wiring has been tampered with i dont think you have a bigger issue on youre hands, i would guess the kill switch got bumped to where it was between the on setting and one of the off settings and started creating heat and then melted itself.  only other place i could think of would be if youre battery terminals are loose AT ALL, they can cause spikes up and down in voltage, but that usually only cause the 4w not to run or not to charge the battery, not a short somewhere..