Sparcon Electronic Ignition for T350
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2024 11:35 pm
i have just finished a ride on my T350 arriving home on the back of a breakdown vehicle, all thanks to my new Sparcon electronic ignition purchased from Dutch site Suzuki Parts NL.
This system looked good with Hall effect triggers from a rotating magnet and was sold as made to fit the T250/350 twins.
The set up was not easy with no real guidance but easy enough to work out a fairly simple system, as long as it works.
LED lights on the left and right modules light up as the magnet fires the coils but in my case the right side module initially refused to light up and took much shimming of the air gap to make the light come on so that both cylinders fired up.
Eventually I had both lights coming on and firing both coils but occasionally one side would cut out at low revs.
After much more fiddling the system seemed stable enough so today I attempted to reach a 2 Stroke Rally about 100 km away and for the first half the bike ran properly until a few km from the rally site when the bike began unstably firing the right cylinder.
After abandoning the rally and heading for home the right cylinder stopped firing altogether and after about 50km of slow riding on 1 cylinder both sparks fizzled out and a call to the RACQ breakdown service saw the bike home on a flatbed truck.
So the Sparcon system will be consigned to the dust bin, the cost written off to experience and the old points and condensor system will be refitted with a few new parts.
Some back and forth with the supplier left me with no confidence in them despite an offer to replace one of the spark modules for the cost of freight so I heartily do not recommend their system.
This system looked good with Hall effect triggers from a rotating magnet and was sold as made to fit the T250/350 twins.
The set up was not easy with no real guidance but easy enough to work out a fairly simple system, as long as it works.
LED lights on the left and right modules light up as the magnet fires the coils but in my case the right side module initially refused to light up and took much shimming of the air gap to make the light come on so that both cylinders fired up.
Eventually I had both lights coming on and firing both coils but occasionally one side would cut out at low revs.
After much more fiddling the system seemed stable enough so today I attempted to reach a 2 Stroke Rally about 100 km away and for the first half the bike ran properly until a few km from the rally site when the bike began unstably firing the right cylinder.
After abandoning the rally and heading for home the right cylinder stopped firing altogether and after about 50km of slow riding on 1 cylinder both sparks fizzled out and a call to the RACQ breakdown service saw the bike home on a flatbed truck.
So the Sparcon system will be consigned to the dust bin, the cost written off to experience and the old points and condensor system will be refitted with a few new parts.
Some back and forth with the supplier left me with no confidence in them despite an offer to replace one of the spark modules for the cost of freight so I heartily do not recommend their system.