HondaCB650

Nope. Nothing I tried today worked. I heard a couple of rightly timed combustions a couple of seconds in on two different tries, but the bike would not continue. Also this time the heatsink really heated up to the point of being too hot to even touch, and voltage on W/G climbed to over 6 volts for s...

Ok thanks for clarifying. Today will be my last attempt until spring. We are supposed to get 6+ inches of snow starting tomorrow through Tuesday. I have no garage so if I can't figure it out today I am calling it quits. I know I still have two variables to change, maybe three. The bike was "gal...

Because Lou's original hypothetical diagram for a real world CB 650, I was bleeding off .7v D/C x 2 to ground backwards through the reluctor coil through each module, which really killed my starting voltage because the headlight switch cannot be put into the "N" position. The path of least...

Pinhead, I have to call on you to check your wiring again, at least the schematic you drew on page 3 of this thread. In your schematic you have 12v from "Ignition Switch" that I assume to mean not the key "ON" Black wire, but from the Run/Stop switch (which would be the black wir...

Well, I am down to the spark plug wire. Apparently I bought resistor wire. Am changing back to the stock OEM wire and see if it will bend the right way. I did not realize it had a copper core with zero Ohms. Someone was lucky finding the Belden in a local store. No one around here sells by the foot ...

Ah I see the difference! For general purposes the "generator" example is easiest to understand as in a sine wave. We want the sine wave to lead on the positive plane and finish with the negative. It is so interesting how coils, transformers, am antennas, and generators all work differently...

Volker I am glad you are up...what is all this nonsense then about reversing polarity on the reluctors? I never got that part. I can understand reversing where the signal ends up on the modules, between W and G or P and N respectively, but I don't understand why exactly the signal from the reluctors...

Presumably, a coil acts as a resistor, not necessitating the voltage to travel in any particular direction. There is no single document I can find from Wells or any other source that indicates any polarity. The symbol for a resistor is VVVVVVVV The symbol for coil is nnnnnnn they are both drawn rela...

Another hour and a half and no dice. I started without the booster with positive and negative reluctors connected to W and G without start booster to check the spark as Pinhead suggested, and I had strong spark at #4 but weak and spotty at #1, which I cleaned. That BMG site has extended tip referenc...

So again, I am using a single 1W 39Ohm resistor to drop current between .2 amps, tied to two sets of serial diodes to drop voltage 1.4v. Thursday Dec. 22nd I will let you know late.

Gentlemen, I have tried as many hours as I have had free this summer. I wasn't that lucky for it to work on the first time. I don't think there is or ever was a person using the GM four pin modules and the GM Coils. Lou published a paper he wasn't running on. I would have more information if he had ...

If you go to any voltage divider applet (Java) you will see that:

(51K-67K) x (2K pot) = 12v to 8v signal of 1.4v on W.

Otherwise tie 22-39w between W and G.

Or use the same 39 ohm as primary voltage and split four diodes 2x2 in serial to both circuits. Drawings to come.