Jays100
Veteran Member
Warning: the fruit of my febrile actions aren't necessarily for the unimaginative. One must start with a goal in mind, you see.
The Problem
I have a stable of 450's of various years and as the points wear out, my goal was to replace with an electronic type replacement. I started with the idea that points are only switches, and that the more crisp the electrical break, the better spark realized at the spark plug. As points spark, arc and generally break the connection gradually, that wonderful charge on the coil's primary side is eroded, and more with each arc or spark until an air gap insulates from further arcing, only then does the field collapse, flood the secondary side and cause a spark event where it's supposed to.
Also, points are in the neighborhood of $40-60 and I'm being frugal in this area so I can be lavish in another.
Surfing through the various forums, I ran across some threads where folks early on, adapted the Dynatek ignition from a GL1000 to the 450, out of production from Dyna and cloned for many years. They had their adapting problems but they were easily overcome, to my mind at least. Traveling over to eBay, I found clones from $40-$60 so I bought one.
The Problem
I have a stable of 450's of various years and as the points wear out, my goal was to replace with an electronic type replacement. I started with the idea that points are only switches, and that the more crisp the electrical break, the better spark realized at the spark plug. As points spark, arc and generally break the connection gradually, that wonderful charge on the coil's primary side is eroded, and more with each arc or spark until an air gap insulates from further arcing, only then does the field collapse, flood the secondary side and cause a spark event where it's supposed to.
Also, points are in the neighborhood of $40-60 and I'm being frugal in this area so I can be lavish in another.
Surfing through the various forums, I ran across some threads where folks early on, adapted the Dynatek ignition from a GL1000 to the 450, out of production from Dyna and cloned for many years. They had their adapting problems but they were easily overcome, to my mind at least. Traveling over to eBay, I found clones from $40-$60 so I bought one.