[JohnnyB]

Anybody here real heavy in interfacing things with micro-controllers like the Basic Stamp II ?
Also need someone that really knows mag/cdi ignitions.

Trying to build a small programmable curve box for a mag/cdi using something like a BSII. Need some advice/info.
JohnnyB

 

[Motohead]

i build things with Legos and Lincoln Logs... does that qualify?!

 

[JohnnyB]

It qualifies you to blow me.

hehe...I made a funny.

And I laughed at it for five minutes.

Seriously now....the programming is probably similar to what you use to program your "up the skirt" sneaker cams.

In the hopes that someone brainy will read this.
Typical Mag/CDI....stator/rotor energize the capacitor, flywheel trigger trips a theristor (sp) that grounds the capacitor and dumps the charge into the main coil...= spark.
Ok....what about the simpler type of Mag/CDI...stator/rotor energize the capacitor and somehow dumps the voltage into the main coil...these simple systems (PVL, early dirt bike, lawn mower etc) don't have a flywheel trigger. Does the collapse of the field at the rotor/stator cause the capacitor to discharge into the main coil?
JohnnyB

 

[JohnnyB]

All you mofo's too stupid to help me?

( using the dreaded reverse psych!)

JohnnyB

 

[GDJAM]

It qualifies you to blow me.

hehe...I made a funny.

And I laughed at it for five minutes.

Holy sh1t that was funny.

 

[Motohead]

thats it... i'm not your lil bitch anymore...

 

[JohnnyB]

In my best Saddam to Satan voice..

"Hey...buddy...relax, it was a joke ok. You know I luv ya"

JohnnyB

 

[ragdoll]

thermistor

What is the application? I didn't understand your mumbo jumbo in your first post.

I guess I would assume that if something needs the resistance to vary as the temp. varies, you couldn't just take out the thermistor and flywheel trigger. Or are you building something from scratch? Or are you just drunk?

A little more info and I'll be able to make up more stuff. No, really, I'd like to know.

 

[JohnnyB]

All of the above.

Actually I used the wrong terminology....I should have said Thyresistor. Or more specifically an SCR (Silicon controlled Rectifier).

The rotor stator windings charge a capcitor....then the flywheel trigger sends a voltage to the SCR which is like a switch that grounds the capacitor and dumps the voltage to the ignition coil.

I'm working with a PVL mag/cdi which has no flywheel trigger....so I need to know how it triggers the capacitor to dump it's voltage to the ignition coil.

Then I have to figure out a way to use a microcontroller ( a complex programmable switch/timer/tiny computer) to delay the spark. I'm trying to modify a standard PVL race ignition. I don't want to add a flywheel trigger if I don't have to.
JohnnyB

 

[Motohead]

are you planning on hooking this device up to your nipples again? thats wrong.



send it my way when you are done...

 

[JohnnyB]

Damn....now that you mention it....

JohnnyB

 

[dayrock]

1.21 jigawatts!

 

[ragdoll]

Great Scott!

 

[JohnnyB]

Phase one is complete. I've built and tested a signal generator circut to simulate pulses from a crankshaft.

Uses a very simple circut that includes an integrated circut timer (555) and a few other modifications I made to allow for adjustable frequency, pulse width and signal strength.

Here's a teaser shot of the scope during one of the tests.

More details and pics can be found here:
http://www.jrbranson.com/showandtell-2.htm

Any pointers from electronic pros or microcontroller geeks is of course welcome...I'm just burnin my way through this without soaking up as much as I should.
JohnnyB

 

[ragdoll]

What do you still need to know?

 

[JohnnyB]

I know so little I don't know what I need to know.

I'm mostly just showing off.

JohnnyB

 

[ragdoll]

Gotcha.

Well let me know if you ever know what you want to know.

 

[Motohead]

More details and pics can be found here:
http://www.jrbranson.com/showandtell-2.htm

Any pointers from electronic pros or microcontroller geeks is of course welcome...I'm just burnin my way through this without soaking up as much as I should.
JohnnyB


I clicked that link and gay farm animal sidecar porn came up?!?



Kinda turned me on too...


J/K... not really...



Ok, maybe a little...

 

[JohnnyB]

I'm working on a new ignition for Big Gay Al's Big Gay Sidecar.

JohnnyB