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is anyone using the moose lighting coil?

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Johnniespeed:
My local dealer simply ordered it up, out of his catalog, possibly tucker/rocky. The coil, I think was about $60 and the voltage stabilzer was $14.
 Hope the prices havent gone up too much since then.

barryadam:

--- Quote from: Johnniespeed on March 10, 2009, 01:16:16 PM ---I use the Moose coil with a voltage stabilizer, I light the Acerbis twin lamp/number plate. It does dim at idle and get brighter when revved. My light is always lit to warn oncoming traffic.  I do use it once in a while at night, but usually just to get back to camp. If I were serious about night riding, I would buy the big E-line system, with helmet lamps, lower fork lamps and the BIG headlamp.
 The Moose coil requires milling about 3-4 mm from the stator bracket, however it does line up with the existing holes. if I did not mill the bracket, the coil would have rubbed the flywheel.
 John

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John's right.  If you are serious, go with the big e-line system that includes all new flywheel/generator.
Sounds like his Moose was exactly like my Electrex L31 Coil.  Not sure what the output is, but they originally sent an L22 which was rated at 75 watts (at what rpm?), and the L31 was roughly the same as the L22.  Bottom line, not much for output.  Charge the back-up ni-cads if you go with a Baja kit and you'll be good to get on the dunes.

As John said, the Electrex lined up perfectly but I had to mill 0.150" off the top of the mounting pads on the plate to avoid interferance with the rivet heads on the back face of the flywheel.  If you carefully measure all of your componenets, you can calculate the cut needed for clearance.
FWIW, I got my Electrex from Electrosport in Oceanside, Ca (2005).

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