Reply To: Scott McCulloch 25

[geary]

Bob,
Thanks for your reply! And yes you explained it very well, even I can understand it 😄! It partially makes sense if your engine is like the early electric start 22hp SA ! They had a magneto system under the flywheel and a set of charging coils, so in order to kill (stop) the engine when the key was turned off the solenoid would go to its spring loaded position and ground out the coils ! But if it is a battery ignition and you turned the key off it would disconnect the power to the ballast resister and kill the engine ! Are your ignition coils under the flywheel or are they mounted somewhere on the powerhead ?
And if there is a Ballast resister in the system that should indicate it is a battery ignition system so turning the key to the off position disconnects the power to the ignition !

Thanks

Gary