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June 18, 2015 at 2:06 am
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quote fleetwin:
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.
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.
Um yeah.. and if they didn’t have that driver coil hogging space, they’d have enough room to put a proper 15A alternator under there! 😛
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Additionally, you would have to have some sort of mag system for manual start models.
And on the manual-start models, that +single+ driver coil put out more energy than a +pair+ of similarly-sized conventional magneto coils?
Oh.. let me guess: They were stuck with using the same dumb mag plate for both models, right? The manual-start had provisions for everything, but lacked the charging coils? Yeah, that’s a crap compromise.. good that they got rid of it. No wonder the Japanese were handing us our national ass at the time.