Ok everybody, lets start a process of elimination list about magnetoes
and electronic ignitions. A good freind of mine has a cozy, with both of
these ignitions on it. The problem is this, we tryed to start it for the
first time yesterday and we had all kinds of troubles, i will list the
problems and failed trouble shooting tips for each below, we are out of
ideas on what to do next so I told him I would present the problems to
the list and see what Ideas you guys would have:
1.prob- engine is a 0-320 that will only run on number 1 and 4 cylinders
(both are closest to the prop)
explanation- the top of each cylinder is fired buy the light-speed
electronic ignition, the bottom of each is fired buy the mag. after
further trouble shootting we found out that the mag. is not working
prob.- mag not working
trouble shoot- disconnected the p-lead and started the plane then we
shut the electronic ign. off, and the plane shut off.the reason we did
this is to make sure the mag was not shorting out.
prob.- there is two coils on the electronic ignition, one for each side
of the engine. each coil has two outputs, one for each cylinder. only
one coil was giving out spark.
troub. shoot- we took the coils and switched them side for side. We got
the same results. This told us that both coils were good.
I dont know if we are over looking somthing simple or not, and i am sure
that we checked the dumb stuff( i think ) so after two days of some
serious deppression, we are open for suggestions. I told him he should
sell it and buy a D-FLY but he didnt find that funny. His answer was the
engine is on the wrong end. Well I hope some of you have good Ideas to
try, If you dont feel like typing you can call or give me your number
and I will call you to discuss this further......thanks Brian
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