HeadSmess
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clearance... the angle of the photo makes the bottom of the rotor look like its touching the magneto arm...
your magneto has fried. simple.
the blue wire is one end of a coil. the white wire is the end of a coil. the other ends of both coils are joined, and are soldered to the magnetos laminated core. that lil blob of solder with the single fine wire at the top. this point is then earth. you could remove the black wire and use any other point of the engine as earth as well. its all one big conductor
and as al says...remove the white wire when you get the new one. do NOT use it as a kill switch. guesses are that you did, just like the manual says
blue to black....theres no diodes, so it wouldnt matter which side you hooked the + of your meter to. infinite is open circuit is fried.
theres absolutely no connection between the spark plug lead and the blue wire coming from the coil. so theres no reading there either. the black is earth. you should get something from coil lead to black.
also set the killswitch to earth the blue wire. merely "breaking" the blue wire can cause arcing and subsequent magneto frying as huge unquenched back-emf currents have a party...
your magneto has fried. simple.
the blue wire is one end of a coil. the white wire is the end of a coil. the other ends of both coils are joined, and are soldered to the magnetos laminated core. that lil blob of solder with the single fine wire at the top. this point is then earth. you could remove the black wire and use any other point of the engine as earth as well. its all one big conductor
and as al says...remove the white wire when you get the new one. do NOT use it as a kill switch. guesses are that you did, just like the manual says
blue to black....theres no diodes, so it wouldnt matter which side you hooked the + of your meter to. infinite is open circuit is fried.
theres absolutely no connection between the spark plug lead and the blue wire coming from the coil. so theres no reading there either. the black is earth. you should get something from coil lead to black.
also set the killswitch to earth the blue wire. merely "breaking" the blue wire can cause arcing and subsequent magneto frying as huge unquenched back-emf currents have a party...
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