Hi All,
Re: 2001 90cc 2 stroke Kazuma Panda - no spark.
In going thru the motions to try and fix the bike, ive found this thingo with a wire bolted to the frame near the rear of the bike... I dont know what it is?

Do any of you know what this is, and if i need to do something with it ?


Also, I posted on another thread about trying to source a suitable CDI - so if you could help me there as well id greatly appreciate it...!
http://forums.atvconnection.com/chin...ml#post3091511


Cheers and thanks in advance,
Gary

Yackandandah, Victoria - Oz.

 

My first guess would be a power resistor.

On a lot of quads the battery charging/lighting system is based on a decades old design. The charging system could not handle the "whole enchilada" of load conditions and stator output capacity conditions. Sometimes the charging/lighting systems couldn't handle the full engine RPM range with the headlights both on or off. Or with the brights both on or off.... Thus the solution was to add power resistors that were switched in when the headlights were turned off, etc. The resistors dissipate some of the power that the headlights would normally dissipate. This leveled the electrical load a bit on the charging system and allowed a stupid design (by today's standards) to live on a while longer.

But I'm getting ahead of myself... Measure the resistance of the device from the input wire to chassis ground. What do you measure?

 

I'll get brekky for the kids out of the way then go out and measure...

It could be a flux capacitor maybe??!!

Hooroo,
Gary