We wired our prodesign switch in place of the stock one and it works just fine.It is a green wire and a black wire with a white stripe found in a small bundle on the left handlebar.
They do make both types of switches a normally closed and a normally open.You may check to see if you might have the wrong type which would operate backwards.
It would run with the tether detached and die with it attached..
Hope this helps.Mike
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