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Old 07-18-2022 | 02:21 AM
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No need to apologize, So your employer had your head examined did they , sorry I had to chuckle, you don't hear, or read that often. Most intelligent people can multitask with their mind, some may think its a form of ADD, but its just having an overclocked brain, processing multiple threads / or ideas... like the "nutty professor"

I was getting my head wrapped around what you were describing with the "big bang" configuration, and phasing the camshafts, I understood the logic what you were saying, then you went back to the firing every 90 degrees setup, which is the way I prefer the ign to be setup. There are a few ways that can be setup, but the two hall sensors set 90 to each other and the two magnets north & south is the easiest way. It will run well, completely different than Johnny'Q's... If you recall that large scale 18 cylinder radial engine ran on glow ignition, which I thought was just ridiculous, good for demonstration purposes, but not practical or reliable without onboard glow drivers.

Don't mention wasted spark With the back ends of those camshafts with the drive dog ears, could easily make cam position / phase sensors, and fire each cylinder without wasted spark, like I did with the OS twin boxer. all I did there was to use a dual hall sensor as a cam phase sensor, and used its output signal to switch the ign coil output pins of the arduino coil A / coil B. Timing still referenced from the crankshaft, so it has the cam phase sensor as well as a crank sensor. It starts on the first flip as long as it has a good prime, If you remember our prior conversations, I had it setup were it would go out of phase, and become a PITA to start.