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Originally Posted by Angus67
Thanks perfect. Im making it kick only . Only head a d tail. Nothing else.
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Tradionaly, magnetos were wired to a push button, which grounded out the magneto in order to shut off the engine, like on a Francis-Barnett. No key switch necessary. The other coils in the alternator used to be called lighting coils. The lighting coils supply a-c power to the lamps, unless there is a rectifier in the circuit, which is necessary if we desire to charge a battery. In days of yore, when you bought your motor cycle, you could specify ignition only, ignition and lights for a little more cashola, or for considerably more money, a rectifier and a battery to run the lights. In England, which required lights for parking on the road, a dry cell battery powered little glow-worm bulbs, front and rear, seperate from the main lights, if you chose not to go the rectifier-battery route. The electrical generating system is more similar than dis-similar to this system on Chinese bikes. You can run your ground wire to the right handlebar to ground out the magneto, and shut off the engine, and run a-c through a simple switch to control the headlight and tail light, and a brake light, if you want one. The number of lighting coils provide the voltage, so check total lighting voltage with the engine running at various speeds to make sure the voltage is low enough for the lamps. If it is too high, cut out 1 lighting coil at a time until you get where you need to be. LED bulbs function just fine from 8 volts to 20 volts, so keep that in mind....ARH