Hey guys, I'm working on the neighbor's Deere F510 with a Kaw FC420V - I need to put the deck drive belt back on the clutch. I also noticed that the charge warning light is on so while checking voltage, it just up and died.. No spark. I looks like someone has put GardenPal ignitor on in place of a presumably failed OE ignitor. It looks like this is a universal ignitor that will work on several engines - I can't find any specs for it, so I thought that I'd test the coil and at least eliminate that as a possibility. It seems that the primary to core resistance measurement *should* be .48-.72 ohms and the secondary to core should be 10.9-16.3k ohms. The primary is 1.5-1.7 and the secondary is 10.7k. Can anyone confirm or deny these specs?
Kawasaki FC420V coil specs?
- Thread starter The_Eric
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Yep, that was what I found too - just wanted to make sure that it was legit
There are some versions with the ignitor integral with the coil.
Disconnect the primary wire from the rest of the mower and test, so the only connection is from the coil to the ignitor if equipped, or the coil open circuit if it does not have a separate ignitor. The mower can kill the sparks to stop the engine by grounding the primary wire either through the key switch or an interlock. If the primary wire is allowed to be open circuit the engine will run. This ignition system is self-powered and does not take power from the 12 volt battery at all.
Disconnect the primary wire from the rest of the mower and test, so the only connection is from the coil to the ignitor if equipped, or the coil open circuit if it does not have a separate ignitor. The mower can kill the sparks to stop the engine by grounding the primary wire either through the key switch or an interlock. If the primary wire is allowed to be open circuit the engine will run. This ignition system is self-powered and does not take power from the 12 volt battery at all.
The mower originally had an ignitor on it, in fact it's still there. I assume that it went bad as it's not wired in the circuit any more and this other universal one is.
I'll try it with the universal ignitor disconnected - but I was under the assumption that it wouldn't fire without the assistance of the ignitor.
Technically I think that it is trying to fire as when I put my blinky light tester on it, it'll blink just fine, but when using an adjustable tester or even a spark plug, it will not light the fire.
