how does the electric start work?

masterx1234 · #1 01-12-2010, 09:20 PM

how does the electric start work on this engine? link: 49cc/52cc Scooter Engine with Electric Start - EPA Certified

am i able to start it from the kill switch or is it on the motor?

Cabinfever1977 · #2 01-12-2010, 11:58 PM

You pull the handle and cord thats on the pullstart piece on the side. Just like a lawnmower.

masterx1234 · #3 01-13-2010, 11:38 AM

it has both pull start and electric

**2door** · #4 01-13-2010, 01:02 PM

If you look at the 'specifications' you'll see, "electric start power cord length", this would lead me to believe that you'll need to plug the starter into house current, 120 volt, to utilize the electric starter. This style of 120 volt starter is common on lawn and garden equipment such as mowers, snow blowers, etc. They give you the pull start option for when you're not near a power source. I'm sure there is a starter button either built into the engine or you'd need to wire one in to the start circuit. I'm sure a call to the supplier would confirm my suspicions.
Tom

Cabinfever1977 · #5 01-13-2010, 03:54 PM

if its made for a scooter,it would connect to a battery.

**2door** · #6 01-13-2010, 06:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cabinfever1977

if its made for a scooter,it would connect to a battery.

Not if the engine is designed to be used for other applications. They give you over two feet of "power cord". Why? Yes, it's being sold on that site as a "Scooter Motor". That doesn't mean it was made just for scooters. I gave the man only an opinion. I didn't say it was carved in stone. Why argue?
Tom

Cabinfever1977 · #7 01-13-2010, 06:25 PM

No argueing here,i didnt look at the specs,but i just did and you are right. I was just giving a opinion too.

Vistaman73 · #8 01-13-2010, 08:58 PM

When you look at the picture, you see 2 wires on top. Those is most likely the starter wires. So, with 2 wires, it will probably connect to a standard 6 or 12 volt battery. (6 is more likely.) ALSO, the shape of the starter resembles one on a riding mower so that just makes my reasoning more supported. Just throwing out what I think.

Vistaman73 · #9 01-13-2010, 09:02 PM

wait, I take that back, those 2 wires may not be, it is hard to see but if you tilt your screen one way or the other, you can see bundled white wire behind the pull handle. that is most likely it. I am still sticking to the battery idea an the other stuff I wrote.

**Norman** · #10 01-13-2010, 10:56 PM

I have an engine like that off of a scooter. the scooter it a 12 volt electric start the starter also
doubles as the battery charger. I don't have the voltage regulator and all the wiring
that is supposed to go with it. You can hook up a ground wire to a battery and touch
the starter with the hot wire off a 12 volt battery and it will spin the engine like a top.
it also has a hand pull rope.
anyway I didn't read the spec on that engine but I do have one like it. it might be a 120 volt
starter on that one.
I do have an extra starter for one. the starter rotor mounts right directly to the crank no bearing
in the starter that rotor just hangs onto the crank by a tapered threaded end. Kind of different
if the stater had ends and bearing a guy could mount it on a MB engine some way maybe on a jackshaft
shift kit?