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How not to hand start a plane

My guess would be that an electronic magneto (i.e. the self powered type of electronic ignition) will have a capacitor and some smoothing circuitry and may need a few spins to charge up enough to make a spark?

Angular speed variation within a single turn at very low rpm is typically the issue, when there is an issue.

Airborne_Again wrote:

During the start sequence of the engine, the EIS sets the ignition timing to 0 TDC and does not begin to fire until approximately 50 RPM. This allows the engine to overcome compression strokes

Last Edited by Silvaire at 03 Oct 20:30
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