ORIGINAL: w8ye
The magneto is a convenient, low maintenance-low cost device device for a general purpose engine.
Their day may be over for model airplane engines as the imported battery powered ignitions have become cheaper than the magneto. Unless of course there was already a magneto on an old engine your were converting to a model engine.
Yet the battery ignition system overs smaller size, less weight, and easier starting
W8YE - is there a chart somewhere that lists the many ignition engines available today? Seems like there's a real herd of these engines out there and it would be nice to have some kind of chart out there that lists them with their builder/source and distributors/sellers.
Ed