Sean Bartnik wrote: > > Hey all, > I was just reading Bob's sermon on capacitive discharge ignition > modules Many years ago, I built one for my scooter Vespa-150. I wound the transformer myself and built a ugly prototype, used a 6 volt battery to operate it. It worked! Well, for just about 1 minute before it blew up into smokes. But that one minute was sure the most exciting one. The idle was like more than twice the normal RPM. The engine was twice as loud as used to be. But the sound was clean and powerful. Before I had a chance to ride the Vespa down the street it blew up and died. CDI system is sure very powerful. However I do feel that it is going to be less reliable due to high voltage (400 - 600 V dc). It demands very high quality ignition wires. I never rebuilt my CDI protype. I gave it up. David Kao 83 westy 84 vanagon
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