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light coil idea
BDI:
I have been kicking around an idea for a home made light coil for a while, So I thought I would talk about It. My idea Is this, I want to get a new stator from a different bike that fits Inside the kx500 flywheel one of the ones with all the poles that looks like a radial airplane engine, a radial coil you could call It. You would need one that has the spark trigger built Into it and the coil that runs the cdi would have to put out the right amount of electricity but you could have It custom wound to the right values.You would have to custom make your own stator plate to bolt It to the engine but that would be easy. This is a picture of a kawasaki majave coil It Is for example only Im not saying It will fit, this one Is from rickystator.com and It puts out 100 watts of lighting power and It still has some empty poles on it.I hadThe one in my crf450x rewound to put out 150 watts. That would be pretty sweet for something that fit under your stock flywheel and mag cover and didn't weigh five extra lbs the trick would be to find the right size coil you would need a good resource some one with a but load of stators that would let you go threw them all looking to see what fit your mag or just some dumb luck and you have one that fits the bill in a box of crap In the garage. Just a idea maybe It will inspire some one or maybe not.
P.S. who knows with some dumb luck that coil might work, It fits the bill If It was the exsact right size
Desert Panther:
sounds like a good idea. But i am not at all talented with stuff like that, so i'll leave it up to those "in the know". Then, I will end up buying one! LOL
The Flyin Hawaiian:
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, maybe later, Team Green used to use a street bike coil on their Baja 1000 KX 500s. Im pretty sure I saw that in one of the motorcycle mags back then.
demographic:
This chap looks like he has a fairly serious lighting kit but its not an Eline stator cover either
I found the pic here...http://www.blinkinteract.com/2006/02/racing_the_baja_1000.html
I copied the photo onto my computer ages ago and typed Charlie Halpin into Google to find some more info but thats it as far as i can see.
Desert Panther:
Holy Flying Frog-Bike Batman! :-o
Now THAT's some lighting!
With something like that, I could scald the retina of everyone that moves in front of it! I really, (no really LOL )am interested in putting some sort of charging and/or lighting system on my '87.
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