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Technical | How To / Kymco ignition on a kawasaki triple
« on: March 25, 2017, 02:41:25 AM »
Hi, new to this forum. Nice forum.
I am building a Kawasaki 500 (1971 3 cylinder 2 stroke) race bike and the engine I bought had absolutely no electrix at all, so I decided to build a total loss 12v battery system with 12v DC CDIs from kymco dink 50. I bought 3 CDI units and bought 3 Bando #1831 Coils.
I did have in my boxes of spare Kawasaki bits a set of pickups and pickup rotor (flying magnet) Hoping they would be compatable. But they don't seem to trigger the CDI.
My question is, what sort of pickups do I need? and I want to mount some sort of flying magnet directly on the end of the crank.
I could possibly mount a kymco flywheel on there but its a bit big not ideal. I could fabricate some sort of aluminium rotor with a magnet embedded, but have no idea what sort of magnet to get.
Bit of a tricky question Eh.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Steve.
I am building a Kawasaki 500 (1971 3 cylinder 2 stroke) race bike and the engine I bought had absolutely no electrix at all, so I decided to build a total loss 12v battery system with 12v DC CDIs from kymco dink 50. I bought 3 CDI units and bought 3 Bando #1831 Coils.
I did have in my boxes of spare Kawasaki bits a set of pickups and pickup rotor (flying magnet) Hoping they would be compatable. But they don't seem to trigger the CDI.
My question is, what sort of pickups do I need? and I want to mount some sort of flying magnet directly on the end of the crank.
I could possibly mount a kymco flywheel on there but its a bit big not ideal. I could fabricate some sort of aluminium rotor with a magnet embedded, but have no idea what sort of magnet to get.
Bit of a tricky question Eh.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Steve.