total loss ignition set up???

why a total loss system on a road bike?? do you like pushing the bike home?? they are ok for a track bike that only runs for a short time. as the battery voltage drops so does the spark intensity. you'll know the battery is getting flat when the motor starts to break up. if you only ride to the end of the driveway then fine.

It's for racing on the track.

My good ole BSA had a total loss ignition. It came standard compliments of Lucas Electric, Ltd. (very limited). It also had the standard total loss lighting because as Lucas states in their sales brochures "Gentlemen shouldn't be motoring about after dark anyway."

650ed wrote:

My good ole BSA had a total loss ignition. It came standard compliments of Lucas Electric, Ltd. (very limited). It also had the standard total loss lighting because as Lucas states in their sales brochures "Gentlemen shouldn't be motoring about after dark anyway."

:laugh: :laugh:

I seem to have made "total-loss" investments lately too.

i run total loss ignitions in both of my drag bikes one is a dyna's with a drl-400 two step i use a ytx 14 agm battery and the second system is a dyna 4000 super pro ignition with a ytx20 battery to power the system i'm anal about keeping a full charge in it all the time so after every pass i put it on charge the dyna's system seems to pull more juice then the 4000 also with the 4000 series ignition it will stop drawing current after awile so you could leave the ignition switch on and not hurt anything.i have seen people who have left there dynas sytems on over night and wasn't a pretty sight. fried both coils and also the ignition plate as well also a second plate because the coils had shorted out no fuse in the system. i have heard good things about the dyna 2000 ignition but i don't have much experiance with them other than installing them for people the wern't anygood to me because they don't have a two- step.

650ed wrote:

My good ole BSA had a total loss ignition. It came standard compliments of Lucas Electric, Ltd. (very limited). It also had the standard total loss lighting because as Lucas states in their sales brochures "Gentlemen shouldn't be motoring about after dark anyway."

:laugh: zing.

Lucas, Prince of Darkness.

My dad used to be a euro import mechanic, worked on a lot of Jags and old British cars.

Some of you have probably heard this one a few times!

"You know why the British drink warm beer?"

timebomb33 wrote:

i have seen people who have left there dynas sytems on over night and wasn't a pretty sight. fried both coils and also the ignition plate as well also a second plate because the coils had shorted out no fuse in the system.

Very good point. I'm not sure if you meant the Dyna S, but the Dyna S will definitely do that if left on. When it's powered up, it runs full current through both coils most of the time. Basically it turns the coils into a little space heater.

On another subject... you guys running total-loss... I though I heard of batteries with an extra cell being used. That way, instead of 12 volts, you get more like 14v to more closely mimic the voltage from a charging system. Anyone had any experience with that? Better? No difference?