Results 1 to 3 of 3

Thread: electrical testing question

  1. 07-06-2004, 05:16 PM #1
    dc
    dc is offline First Time Rider Arm chair racerNew to the board
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    --
    117

    electrical testing question

    I'm haveing problems getting a spark on my 185s. It does have a very weak spark that can only be "seen" by holding the your finger to the spark plug electrode, and then again, it's very weak. So I did a test on the excitor coil and I came up with a problem. I put one wire of my fluke meter to the wire from the coil, and I grounded the other wire on the cylinder. Right away the resistance read 220 ohms. Then it quickly declines to 180, 140 100, 60, 20, 0, and then it will actually read a negative resistance! All the while I'm holding the wires in place. What is going on here?
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. 07-07-2004, 11:12 AM #2
    dc
    dc is offline First Time Rider Arm chair racerNew to the board
    Join Date
    Dec 2002
    --
    117
    I think there's something wrong with my multimeter. I tried to test the continuity through the spark plug cable and boot but the multimeter read overload. Which would mean there's no continuity, right? But that doesn't make sense because I was still getting a very weak spark.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. 07-09-2004, 05:47 PM #3
    Sargon2112
    Sargon2112 is offline First Time Rider Arm chair racerNew to the board
    Join Date
    Jul 2004
    Location
    Blue Ridge Mountains
    --
    141
    if you put the meter leads together you should read between 0 and 1 ohm.... if that works, I'd say the meter is ok.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
//ArrowChat Integreation Code //