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Re: magneto

To: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
Subject: Re: magneto
From: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:12:03 -0500
Hi Larry,
Could there be a large enough diode to handle it?
I have an 860 Ducati; stock they have an ignition relay that, when off, grounds
the two CDI coils.  Turn the key, they are 'un-grounded'; fine as long as the
relay keeps working, but it makes the CDI ignition rely on the battery just for
that.
For the track and emergencies it is nice to just run with the independant
ignition.

Long story short; a single kill switch allows one coil to misfire the other so I
rigged a pair of diodes; electrical 'one-way valves'.
In your case; ganging the HT leads, I don't know.
Cheers,
Rick


LGMCAFEE@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/17/02 1:32:31 PM Central Standard Time, v4gr@rcn.com
> writes:
>
> << As usual I don't understand the question. I don't know anything about
>  electricity but I suspect this will burn out one or both mags. Keep in mind
>  that I'm usually wrong about such things. It seems to me that it would be a
>  fairly easy thing to add a spark plug to a two stroke head (it is aluminum I
>  hope) and a second plug will give you the redundancy I think your looking
>  for.    Rich Fox
>   >>
> Rich that is my problem also I don't know electricity. The rules don't allow
> for two spark plugs but any ignition system is OK. Larry Mac

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