what it this orange wire on my CDI?
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@Hybrid_Theory01
No! It should be connected to the coil to supply a spark to the plug! What colour wire is connected to your coil?
Is the orange wire loose?WTF?
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It supplies the pulse to the coil as well. I’d be worried about it loosing ‘resolution’ by passing it through other switch-joins. Easier to just use the normal earth to kill the engine…
I’m guessing it was a paranoid hidden kill switch? Otherwise I can’t see a point. I’d definitely put it back to ‘straight to coil’…
The normal kill switch wire is black with white stripe…
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As @SpookDog has alluded to, you don't want any impedance on that pulse coil wire but hiding a kill switch just seems a bit lame, there are better ways to secure your motorcycle than that. Ultimately these bikes are not stolen to order, they're usually stolen for a joy ride and then burnt out, so you just want to deter the thief to move on to some other poor sods bike who hasn't secured it properly...
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Black with white stripe is the ignition kill on my bike
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The ignition key switch has a kill as well as the throttle switch. There should be a wire behind the headlight somewhere already. Black with white stripe…
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@SpookDog yes I have that Wire connected to the Key switch, my interest is to keep the on off Button, i Will rewire it to the black and white cable, even tho it really doesent affect the Spark since the aditional resistance is insignificant
