REFLECTOR: new electronic ign.

[Jim Sower]

<... continue ignition when electrical power fails ...>
That *was* a very important consideration - in the '20s and '30s and 
clear into the '50s and '60s when electrical power was provided with 
generators with a service life of 100-400 hrs and early lead acid 
batteries with minimal capacity. A *lot* has changed since 1950 - sadly, 
none of the changes happened at or affected Lycoming or Continental. 
They finally adapted early 70s automotive alternators, and I guess (key 
word here) that you're allowed to put a modern battery in your spam can. 
Today's alternators and batteries have a *much* longer service life than 
the generators. The average electronic ignition unit will out last a mag 
by an order of magnitude.

Try and remember: you do not have two mags because they give better 
ignition that way - they give lousy ignition the day you install them, 
and go downhill from there. You have two mags because one of them is 
*certain* to fail. One electronic unit provides better ignition (saves a 
reported up to 10% fuel) than two mags. Replace one of the mags with an 
electronic unit that costs less than a mag and lasts 10 times as long, 
and let it pay for itself in fuel savings in 500 hrs or so.

I see no sense in building a cutting edge airplane and power it with 
80-year-old technology ... Jim S.



Brian wrote:

> How does it provide backup power to continue ignition when electrical 
> power fails? I didn’t see anything about that on their site. B g
>
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> *From:* reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *davedent at comcast.net
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 15, 2004 6:38 PM
> *To:* reflector at tvbf.org
> *Subject:* REFLECTOR: new electronic ign.
>
> For you guys that are interested, I talked with a new company today 
> that is developing a new electronic ignition system. This will more 
> then blow the others out of water. Like Lightspeed Engineering and 
> Jeff Rose. Jeff is not delivering now. Lightspeed has lowered their 
> price to almost in half.
>
> They plan on having a booth at Oshkosh. May have to share with some 
> one else. They hard to get. But they only have systems coming for the 
> four cylinder Lycoming so far. I am on the top of the list for the one 
> of the first six cylinder systems.
>
> After flying both the Long EZ and the Cozy IV with both of the systems 
> that are out there. As well as a Tech II, I found the Jeff Rose the 
> best. But this new system looks like it will eliminate the competition 
> for some time.
>
> I told him, Brad, to put me on the list for his West Coast Rep. I 
> think I have put enough of the other systems on to know what not to do 
> and what to do. This new system is a quantum leap in the right direction.
>
> So you fellows with four cylinder Lyc's. check into the 
> www.emagair.com <http://www.emagair.com/> site and get use to seeing 
> this name come up a lot in the future. For us guys with the six 
> cylinders will have to wait for awhile.
>
> By the way with a dual system you need no battery back up if the 
> electrical system fails. They have it covered, it's all built in.
>
> When you write in or call them tell them Dave Dent put you on to them.
>
> Dave
>
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