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    Unknown Electronic Ignition

    This a little embarrassing but, can somebody remind me what kind of ignition this is? I pulled it off my Sonerai many beers ago and have forgotten its name etc. Thanks
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    To me it looks like some sort of alternator. But I know nothing about this, its just a guess.

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    Electronic ignition, or some kind oddball magneto?

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    The two wires coming out of the end don't look like they're connected to a built-in distributor. And there's only two wires, which makes it unlikely that the unit is a ignition system for the 4-cylinder VWs they put on Sonerais. Can you shoot another picture, showing the end where the wires come out?

    Also, it looks like it has a fairly narrow mounting flange. Don't see any long oblong slots that would let it be turned to adjust timing.

    My vote is also on it being a generator/alternator of some sort.

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    Here's a couple more pics Ron. It's definitely the ignition, the trigger assembly or something. I can't remember exactly. The leads are like 18ga-22ga so it's not producing power. I do remember they went to the ignition "box"-CDI. It's mount is standard crank drive/mag style VW. I still have the "drive puck" and flange clamps. It mounted in the middle of an X mount. Thanks for the help!
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    Can you post a picture of the end that has the distributor cap (opposite to the drive end)?

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    This is likely a hall effect trigger for a CDI type ignition. LightSpeed sells something similar to replace a magneto that can be used to trigger their ignition. It couples to a magneto gear in a similar manor. I wonder if this isn't an early model of the light speed ignition trigger set up for a VW engine? Look at the bottom of this page for their latest model. http://www.lightspeedengineering.com...s/Ignition.htm


    The wiring connections make sense. 12v in spliced together to supply both halves, ground spliced together to ground both halves, and 2 separate triggers to fire a pair of dual coils with a waste a spark type ignition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cub builder View Post
    The wiring connections make sense. 12v in spliced together to supply both halves, ground spliced together to ground both halves, and 2 separate triggers to fire a pair of dual coils with a waste a spark type ignition.
    Gotcha, thanks for the explanation. I'm too used to traditional mags.... :-)

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    That's it Cub Builder!!! Thanks, I remember now. I pulled it to install a slick and secondary electronic ignition when I went to dual plug heads.

    Thanks again,

    Guy

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