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June 17, 2015 at 6:01 pm
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Yes, the single coil on the right of the picture is the driver coil on the electric start/alternator wiring diagram you posted.
While there is an alternator, it is only capable of about 4-5amps at WOT, I doubt it could keep up with the load presented by a conventional battery/coil ignition system. Additionally, you would have to have some sort of mag system for manual start models. Like we say, most of these ignition/plug fouling woes disappeared in 1977 when the magCD system was introduced on the smaller outboards. No points, a pretty simple "plug and play" system.