weird, I usualy don't even use an eletric starter on any 4-stroke I have, no need to. After the inital prime, for the first run of the day as long at it wasn't run dry I've never had a problem, fuel it up just hook the inginter up and smack the back of the prop with my hand. just gotta be quick. When I'm lazy it has never taken more than one lundge through the compression stroke with the eletric starter. I have to admit thats from expreiance with my engines and getting a great idle setting.

For a new engine I would LUG all your equipment to the feild, once it's broken in and running reliably and you know the motor, then leave your junk at home and hand start it, though a chicken stick is advisable

If you hate hauling a bunch of stuff to the feild then these are for you. I've alway hated the feild box and power panel thing, it just sucks

b and p starter the starter is spendy and probably not justifyable to many first time flyers but it is the best I've seen and starts everything from .049s to 1.8's

and hot shot

owned allot of igniters this one is the only one I ever liked.

Now alls I really need to bring to the feild is a small tote with some tools a pump and a some fuel.