Derek
Ex Member
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The problem persists. I have gone through Slavy's step by step suggestions and all connections, resistances, current, voltages, and grounds appear as they should be. So I decided to investigate a bit further. When disconnecting the coil there was about 5ohms across the terminals. When connected, the orange wire showed 12v with the key on. But when cranking the engine, there was 10.5-11.5v at the terminal. As there is no balast resistor in the system, I assume that the minor voltage drop simply is from the starter drawing power. If my memory of electrical theory is correct, the coil should receive 12v to excite the field and the magnetic field should collapse in between excitations/modulations. But, the needle on the voltmeter did not fluctuate when cranking. Now I'm suspecting the signal is corrupt from the black box which I understand controls this. There continues to be one spark at the beginning of each starter cycle attempt. A bizarre observation though is that when I turned off the key, there is another single spark. Is the black box all confused? I don't think this is normal. I rechecked all possible sources of power interruptions and the kill, neutral, clutch, and side stand switches are operational. So, I'm thinking that the ignitor box may be bad. The bike did however sit outside over the winter at -30C and may have cracked internally the black box. Poor Savage. At 650$ I'm not rushing out to buy a new black box right now. If you have thoughts and/or have a comment on my deductions and attempts at problem solving, please do share. If there is something else to check, again, please do share. Thanks. Derek
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