Go to Petes website and read his troublehooting guides. Test with a battery. If it runs with a battery ignition is good.
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- Thread starter Jthomas
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I’m going to disregard my findings for PMA. That could be human error just from me trying to take a measurement while kicking the bike and reading a digital meter.
Just did the whole troubleshooting guide. Pamco seems chooched. Just no spark.
Connected my battery
Have 12.5-13v @ the pamco. Continuity at the grounds from end to end. Just no spark.
Not sure if that little 3 legged guy looks burnt or not???
Just did the whole troubleshooting guide. Pamco seems chooched. Just no spark.
Connected my battery
Have 12.5-13v @ the pamco. Continuity at the grounds from end to end. Just no spark.
Not sure if that little 3 legged guy looks burnt or not???
Got my new ignition in under warranty.
But first-
Just to check, I put the original working ignition back on (the one that came with the bike, not the pamco I put on), and it had spark. But bike wouldn’t run. It would pop and kick back until I blew my ankle out.
Anyways. New new ignition on.
I disconnected my pma with suspicion.
Hooked battery up to my cap. And it started up first kick.
How I tell if the pma is killing my ignitions?
But first-
Just to check, I put the original working ignition back on (the one that came with the bike, not the pamco I put on), and it had spark. But bike wouldn’t run. It would pop and kick back until I blew my ankle out.
Anyways. New new ignition on.
I disconnected my pma with suspicion.
Hooked battery up to my cap. And it started up first kick.
How I tell if the pma is killing my ignitions?
In that link it tells you how to do that...........run the ignition off a different circuit to or from the battery and then run and test the voltage output from the PMA.........at idle and at full advance
I may be missing something............how are you testing the voltage after the Reg/Rect
I just posted a new thread about it.
The red and green wire that come out of it. It hooks to the + - on my cap. I just popped them off and held my meter leads on them while it was running. So that was the voltage going into my cap.
so the 15-20 volts is also going onto the Pamco..........
The common failure mode for electronic voltage regulators is "closed" IE the system starts "running wild" full time highest charging rate possible. Electronic components just HATE that. They much prefer a nice smoothly regulated 12-14 volts.
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Mikkel Stange
July 29 at 8:20 PM
Pamco / XSCharge ignition: I fried my ignition by turning the key with spark plug caps off - not good. But after advice in this group by Jace Dunn and others, I got a TIP120 NDN transistor and replaced the burnt one. It's not the exact same as the one that was on the ignition but I just tested it and got spark on both sides. Only managed to get the bike to cough a few times, so still some troubleshooting to go. BUT, so far I got the spark back for $2...
The Pamco/XSCharge ignition can be run on a separate system, (I think it needs a battery)............last paragraph in post #2 in the link below
http://www.xs650.com/threads/boyer-and-pamco-ignition.46859/
http://www.xs650.com/threads/boyer-and-pamco-ignition.46859/
