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'86 Ingniter testing?
11/01/25 at 23:02:43
 
Pretty sure I fried my igniter.  Before I tear it apart to look at the innards, is there a way to test it?  Tried search and poking around the forums to no avail.  I did find the links to IgniTech so if it is fried at least I have that option as opposed to paying near $400 for a used ebay piece.  

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Re: '86 Ingniter testing?
Reply #1 - 11/02/25 at 01:22:44
 
Mike,
By all means, get an Ignitec. It will come to you pre-configured as a drop in replacement and if you want to, you can later program your own retard curve, Edit: should be: Advance curve) set a rev-limit Edit: And you can make the hard limit soft by retarding the ignition just below the rev limit and a lot of other finesse features, like take input from throttle position to influence retard curve.
With an Ignitec ignition module in your bike, there is no going back.

I was lucky to revive my ignitor, by exchanging the diodes, but it never produced a good idle, and without a schematic I plain gave up on the ignitor.

I have no association with Ignitech, other than being a very satisfied customer.

Cheers, Finn Hammer
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Reply #2 - Yesterday at 08:54:04
 
KLM wrote on 11/01/25 at 23:02:43:
Pretty sure I fried my igniter.  Before I tear it apart to look at the innards, is there a way to test it?


How do you think that you fried the ICU?  Electric welding?  Jump starting?

FinnHammer got pretty far into testing a Savage ICU, but I don't think he ever got a result that he felt was satisfactory.
https://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1749758893/15

Since we don't have a documented healthy trigger signal from the pickup coil, or know which transition in that signal is intended to trigger the ignition event, how would one know what sort of signal the ICU will accept?  These are questions that need to be asked and answered while a system is still healthy and operating.

What test equipment do you have available?
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Re: '86 Ingniter testing?
Reply #3 - Yesterday at 12:54:09
 
Not paying cliose enough attention and hooked my new lithium battery up backwards.  

Just a multimeter for testing
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