its a start of a little bit of a story.
For a while now, I've been playing around with CDI's (to the point of even trying to make one myself).
Back in 2010 I got myself an ignitech P2 and fell in love with it (amazing value for money and recommend them to nearly everyone).
But; with over 9 bucket bikes in the GPR fleet (including 50, sidecars and some other gems); its a little to expensive to have ignitech's on everything, so we are stuck with the age old problem "shit CDIs" or swapping CDI's....
So as part of the my original search (2010) I stumbled across a
Chinese MC forum where a young man named Dragon was prototyping a CDI; which I followed with some interest (along with some correspondence; and a simple wish list).
Well he managed to do it and start producing the units. And yes you can buy them directly out of china.
Sitting on my desk is a Version 1.04 (o.k so its a version 4) after fighting Customs....
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After working through the Chinese Complied version; I now have a Engrish (not quite English) version of the software installed and running.
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Thus far; now we have it in a state where we can do something:
Once you get the USB dongle installed, the software and CDI will happily talk without any connection to a 12v battery (this is cool as I can play with it in my office rather than in the shed).
Adding and moving points (up to 120 points; but five to seven will do) and programming is a piece of piss.
The CDI micro's clock speed is significantly higher than that of the ignitech (so the number of points at the moment doesn't seem to be an issue).
Two or four stroke (single or twin) it doesn't matter.
half effect trigger as a primary (but it looks like it will take other trigger options)
Extra Features:
Bugger all at the moment.
Kill switch, quickshifter (ok internal modification of the killswitch; with a time delayed spark). plus adjustable MAP and RPM limiter.
Price = ~$150 for the chinese version currently (but I'm working on that too)...
From here:
Should be on the bike this week (on the dyno) and I'll see if I can break it.
If it survives then I'll carry on the translation of the installation manual/wiring diagrams and help improve the Engrish in the software further...
Its not an Ignitech (if you want that level of performance/features get an Ignitech);
But hopefully its better than a clapped out 20 year old MX CDI, which would likely still cost more...
I'll keep everyone in the loop.
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