ORIGINAL: rc34074
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
Ed If someone compiled a chart tonight, by morning it would be obsolete. New engines or variations of existing engines come up every day.
I had a strong feeling like this for a couple years. Now I just read along and take the new ones in as the come and if the ones from last year are not talked about, they drop out of mind.
Some of the current popular ones (and there are others) are the DLE which are derivatives of the DL's, Aerovate, JC, CRRC, RCGF, and many others
At the flying field locally in Shelby, I see Evolution, BME, Zenoah, and DA engines