question about CDI and regular ignition

[James Montebello]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, John Dammeyer wrote:
> Called waste spark,  it is said to clean the sparkplug during the
> exhaust stroke.  Yeah right... What it does is save a transitor for each
> pair of cylinders and that is good thing.

Saves a transistor, and is also much easier to trigger with a fully
electronic crank-triggered system, requiring half as many triggers and
coil driver circuits.  Has been used almost universally on motorcycle
engines for 20 years.

james montebello

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