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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 28862" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Motor cars abandoned magnetos about 80 years ago. Nowadays they seem to use slightly modified welding sets, blue sparks a foot long, but coil has fired every car engine for decades, including all of the wrecks I've owned. (Cycle mag tested coils, and noted that bike coils (Ducati, Lucas) would easily spark a 20 thou gap, and cheap as chips AC Delco coils would spark 1/8". Go figure... Cook Neilson won Daytona on his Ducati 750 powered by an after-market AC Delco coil that cost about $1.99 from Walmart.) </p><p>Pazon (I have one on another bike) is essentially a solid-state advance / retard control, and a spark trigger. All it needs is a power source in, and a coil out. I've had no problems with mine. But nor have i had any problem with my Vin magneto, once Dave Lindsley overhauled it (the capacitor died), and I corrected 289 float levels that differed by 5/8". Now THAT improved starting!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 28862, member: 4034"] Motor cars abandoned magnetos about 80 years ago. Nowadays they seem to use slightly modified welding sets, blue sparks a foot long, but coil has fired every car engine for decades, including all of the wrecks I've owned. (Cycle mag tested coils, and noted that bike coils (Ducati, Lucas) would easily spark a 20 thou gap, and cheap as chips AC Delco coils would spark 1/8". Go figure... Cook Neilson won Daytona on his Ducati 750 powered by an after-market AC Delco coil that cost about $1.99 from Walmart.) Pazon (I have one on another bike) is essentially a solid-state advance / retard control, and a spark trigger. All it needs is a power source in, and a coil out. I've had no problems with mine. But nor have i had any problem with my Vin magneto, once Dave Lindsley overhauled it (the capacitor died), and I corrected 289 float levels that differed by 5/8". Now THAT improved starting! [/QUOTE]
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