Previous owner took the magneto and original condenser out of the circuit and installed a external condenser and a 12 volt coil.
I checked the original condenser with my multimeter. I set it to ohms and touched the red lead to the end where the coil primary wire and points wire connect at the condenser and the black lead to the condenser body for a few seconds.
Then I switched the multimeter to 20 volts, connecting the leads the same way I did before I got 5.4 volts and the volts started coming down all the way to 0 volts.
According to the information I read the condenser is good.
Then I moved over to the magneto coil.
I set my multimeter to 20K connected red lead to the the terminal that feeds the coil wire and black lead to the wire that hooks up to the condenser.
I got a reading of 11.50 Which tells me the secondary circuit is good.
Now here is the first question:
When I checked the primary circuit. I set multimeter to 2k.
Touched the red lead to the wire that connects to the condenser and black lead to the coil ground tab.
I got a reading that started at 1.4 ohm but dropped of to 0 in two seconds or so.
First question:
An old guy in a video said that a reading like this indicates a good primary circuit... Does it indicate a good reading?
I found this video on how to correctly time a magneto, But it's for a cub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqucExhxXdE
Second Question:
Can I time my 1949 H Magneto in the same manner that was used on the cub?
...Thanks...
I checked the original condenser with my multimeter. I set it to ohms and touched the red lead to the end where the coil primary wire and points wire connect at the condenser and the black lead to the condenser body for a few seconds.
Then I switched the multimeter to 20 volts, connecting the leads the same way I did before I got 5.4 volts and the volts started coming down all the way to 0 volts.
According to the information I read the condenser is good.
Then I moved over to the magneto coil.
I set my multimeter to 20K connected red lead to the the terminal that feeds the coil wire and black lead to the wire that hooks up to the condenser.
I got a reading of 11.50 Which tells me the secondary circuit is good.
Now here is the first question:
When I checked the primary circuit. I set multimeter to 2k.
Touched the red lead to the wire that connects to the condenser and black lead to the coil ground tab.
I got a reading that started at 1.4 ohm but dropped of to 0 in two seconds or so.
First question:
An old guy in a video said that a reading like this indicates a good primary circuit... Does it indicate a good reading?
I found this video on how to correctly time a magneto, But it's for a cub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqucExhxXdE
Second Question:
Can I time my 1949 H Magneto in the same manner that was used on the cub?
...Thanks...