Re: Lets build an electric starter for the China girl .
Hi guys,
Believe it or not , I think electric starting the Chinese 2 strokes can be done without adding a starter motor or using a separate drill !!
Let me give you a little background on this...
Recently I bought an older generator... A Winco SPE 4000 to be exact.
When I went to look at the generator, the owner said the generator can be electric started by adding a battery (it had the standard rope starter and I looked at the engine (a standard 8 hp Briggs), but I did not see a starter motor attached to the engine itself....so I asked the owner how this engine can be electric started without an electric starter?
The owner pointed to 2 leads coming from the generator itself and said by hooking a battery to the 2 leads, the generator in effect turns into a starter motor, thus electric starting the engine.....I had never seen anything quite like this.....The owner hooked up a battery to the generator, pushed the start button, and the engine whirred over and sprung to life....wow!
Anyways, I'm thinking, that since this is an older generator It must be brushed system as opposed to inductive system. By making a brushed system for our two-stroke engines (as in for generating power for our electrical accessories and for powering the CDI / providing timing.... I believe that our engines can be electric started like this older Briggs is electric started by using the generator portion as an electric starter motor.
Also, If I remember correctly, there are people online selling enhanced power magneto's for our two-stroke engines (I believe these allow a person to run 12 V accessories with greater amperage, whereas we are currently at 6 V and low wattage in stock form...I think they sell them on eBay)....
If we can devise a brushed version of this enhanced magneto I believe we can have a starter system like the older generator I recently bought.
Hope this helps....Maybe somebody out there can run with this....Electric start would be kinda neat.
Andrew