MOPED ARMY

Does your ignition low voltage coil put out any voltage? Does the trigger coil put put any voltage? Do the coils read continuity when disconnected from the rest of stator? (I.e., are the windings intact?)

so is this your first installation of it? malossi is usually pretty decent quality so id be suprised if it came to you messed up. if you havent put miles on it to potentially damage it i would be more inclined to say install error. sorry, i hate when people tell me that too, and you seem pretty confident in your work.

ive had trouble with my moby cdi too (the treats version, of much lower quality) and the best advice i can give you is to get the resistance readings of all your coils (mainly your primary) on a _functioning_ stator plate. someone else on the forums may be able to grab them for you. then, in times like this, you can compare your coils to the functioning ones and get a good idea if theyre fried or not. pretty much the only thing i can think of to try to investigate black magic box situations like this.

on my cdi the functioning coils were 350 ohms and when i blew them they went down to 150. so the difference was night and day for me, maybe it will be for you too.

The first two brand new boxes I got for that same cdi were junk. One sparked intermittently the other was totally dead. Testing on another bike confirmed it was the boxes. Totally possible you got a junk box

Double check all your grounds, I had the same problem getting mine set up. It turned out to be a missing ground inside the headlight bucket. Another issue I had was getting the conductor of the sparkplug wire to get a real good bite on the the screw inside the coil.

Probably not his lights, but the tangle of wires inside a peugeot headlight.

you don't have something plugged into the kill tab on the cdi box?... well other then the kill switch. I know it's a kinda silly question, but start with basics. :-)

Looks like a very truncated version of my mistake. Hook up the lights you won't be sorry for long. Its a nice lots of watts. But you have power from the lighting coil going from the stator to the VR, but its not going to ground after the VR.

I don't think you did.

Just keep in mind that CDI spark looks different than points spark.

Feels very different too, if your arm goes numb you know you have it right

I tried, sorry...

I still think its not fried and you will find something embarassingly "school for the gifted" simple that will then get you spark

It just seems so similar to my situation, one spark, then no spark, then no spark, then wondering if I fried it, then redoing everything twice till I found my error.

dude just like you told me with my hobbit, don't give up.

with cdi, you usually need to spin the flywheel a bit faster to get spark out of it. I use a hand-held CORDED drill to spin my flywheel while testing spark and checking timing, it'll spin the motor at close to 2k!, Continuity doesn't always show everything wrong within a circuit, a single strand of a multi-strand copper wire can have 1 ohm of resistance and show up good as continuity, but it can't carry the amperage needed for any electrical consumer. Check what your voltages are coming out of your stator going to the cdi box with the motor spinning (drill) Check to see if you're getting voltage to the coil from the cdi box. You can see if your pick-up coil is generating voltage as well. Cdi's are pretty basic, maybe not as much as points but still pretty simple.

Good luck.

Try attaching another ground from the engine to the frame.

Bumping it up.

So today I installed a new box- and the problem doesn't seem to be the box- because I still don't have spark.

So we ran voltage tests on everything- pushing the bike around while my buddy Matt held his tester. The results- The Green wire into the box provides constant voltage as does the yellow lighting wire. They provided no voltage at all- no pulses, nothing.

I also pulled the stator and the coils and reinstalled them, and we checked the continuity on the coils and they are intact.

Oh and I put in another redundant ground.

What do you think? Bad pickups? I honestly have no idea. I think I got a bad unit- 2 bones down the drain?

Nate, you know I don't know shit about cdis but ya know how the frame of the Hobbit isn't grounded? Maybe check your Moby ground by hooking the ground clamp from your welding machine to your subframe while the welder is turned on. Just an idea.

switch your multimeter to hz setting and then test the wires coming from the pickup again. It should read whatever rpms you are turning the motor at. If it does not then the pickup is bad.