Risingsunn
Member
Good Sunday afternoon all!
Well it seems the Acme Mark II is living up the the Acme reputation. It seems that I have an electrical failure of undetermined nature.
So here is what we have: The latest and greatest DAX Gen IV F80, a little over 150 miles on her. The first CDI came from my original kit same with the kill switch, 1500+ miles of use, Magnocore spark plug wire and NKG B8HS plug gapped at .30.
Massdrive and I had completed a 40 mile ride without any electrical issues. A couple of hours later I go to take a ride and no spark... Hmmm.. So after checking all connections, disconnecting the kill switch, checking the plug etc. Looking around at the forum I found THIS post. And after testing as recommended the coil came back fine. However, testing Positive lead on BLACK wire and Negative lead on BLUE wire on the CDI came back infinite instead of the 130-150 K-ohms. Bad CDI. So I ordered a new CDI.
Got it in yesterday. WOOT!! Unscrewed the crappy stock wire, carefully screwed in the magnacore wire from the old CDI. Hooked up the connections and I was running again! Took it out for a couple of short test rides, not even a city block. I rode her back and put her away for the night.
TODAY, I go out, double check all the connections zip tie things down and TRY to go on a brief ride. Nope... No spark, again. What the ????
So I clip the zip ties and disconnect the kill switch, check all conenctions, still nothing. Break out the multimeter, and back to no reading across the black and blue. Did I fry ANOTHER CDI? Is it possible? I am still getting the correct readings across the coil.
I am stumped. Any assistance that y'all could offer would be great. Thank you!
Well it seems the Acme Mark II is living up the the Acme reputation. It seems that I have an electrical failure of undetermined nature.
So here is what we have: The latest and greatest DAX Gen IV F80, a little over 150 miles on her. The first CDI came from my original kit same with the kill switch, 1500+ miles of use, Magnocore spark plug wire and NKG B8HS plug gapped at .30.
Massdrive and I had completed a 40 mile ride without any electrical issues. A couple of hours later I go to take a ride and no spark... Hmmm.. So after checking all connections, disconnecting the kill switch, checking the plug etc. Looking around at the forum I found THIS post. And after testing as recommended the coil came back fine. However, testing Positive lead on BLACK wire and Negative lead on BLUE wire on the CDI came back infinite instead of the 130-150 K-ohms. Bad CDI. So I ordered a new CDI.
Got it in yesterday. WOOT!! Unscrewed the crappy stock wire, carefully screwed in the magnacore wire from the old CDI. Hooked up the connections and I was running again! Took it out for a couple of short test rides, not even a city block. I rode her back and put her away for the night.
TODAY, I go out, double check all the connections zip tie things down and TRY to go on a brief ride. Nope... No spark, again. What the ????
So I clip the zip ties and disconnect the kill switch, check all conenctions, still nothing. Break out the multimeter, and back to no reading across the black and blue. Did I fry ANOTHER CDI? Is it possible? I am still getting the correct readings across the coil.
I am stumped. Any assistance that y'all could offer would be great. Thank you!
