ORIGINAL: jakestew
Glad to see this thread picking up some steam!
The coil in the pictures above looks a lot like the one John sent me. His coil is already potted in epoxy and seems to throw some very long killer sparks.
DON"T DO THIS, YOU DISTROY THE COIL !!!!!!!
A CDI-ignitioncoil is make to produce small very intensive sparks - not long sparks (not great distance between the leads !!)
I looked for the source that your CDI was using, but couldn't find it. I had heard that there was trouble licensing it as open source.
The programmer I "rent" will do it for free, that was a reason why we don't get the source.
And also a part of the source was allready sold and now will be used into a real (CDI) product.
For sure! I'm not even actually using a pulse generator. When I say ''simulator'' I mean the entire timer board circuit (and a pulse generator) is simulated on the computer. My problem at the moment is that I don't currently have a CDI engine working. My GF also won't let me run an engine in the house for some odd reason, and I haven't loaded my laptop with the compiler yet.
I use a electric rc motor to test the CDI's, same Neymi will do.
A small variable powersupply speedup the engine and a magnet into a plastic flywheel is my ignitionpoint and a hallsensor the sensor for the PIC.
I'll try to instal the new MPlab version on a old laptop, but I don't know if the laptop can handle this kind of software.
I don't want to instal the software on my workstation, I need this to make my money ervery month
