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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:35:12 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

This is no wives tale. Look at any regular battery switch and it will say
on the front "Stop engine before switching off."

Nice answer, but the question wasn't whether he could turn the switch
off before shutting down the engine. It was whether he could change
from #1 to #2 to both without shutting down the engine.

In that case the answer is it depends. On a 1-2-both switch the wording is
normally "operating" rather than "off" unless it is a make before break type
switch.

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