My Ignition Analyser video

[KeLL]

Hi all,
Well I don't know how common this ignition analyser device is, but I couldn't find any posts on it (only posts that said to swap coils/check circuits, etc).
So I made a movie of it in action and I was able to detect that my spark plug was bad.

http://www.kell.org/videos/BikeMovies/98GS500E/ignitionanalyser.mov

It's 30 mb big so if you have a slow internet connection it will take a long time.


Cheers,
Kellie

[scratch]

It's allright, only because I don't know what I'm looking at (well kinda).  You had sound, you coulda narrated, that would have been cool and probably more informative.  But, you did good for a first try. 

[starwalt]

+1 with Scratch. Narration will give the total neophyte a point of reference and probably educate them as well.

Now for the technical aspects of your bike problem...

It looks to me like you were reading the fact that the ignition was putting the high voltage to the plug wires, but we don't have a shot of it running to know what a good display should look like.  Of course with a totally dead plug, RH in this case, your "good" display may probably look the same as the "bad" display.

The HV energy was going somewhere, probably arcing inside the plug and not at the spark gap where it was intended to arc.

So....how about a voice over? I know, I know. Hollywood critics hate voice overs in film. Refer to Blade Runner theatrical vs Director's Cut.

Again, a great first showing for those of us who know what the gadget is doing.

[GeeP]

An ignition analyzer on a GS?  Poor thing, it only has two plugs.  My GS is afraid of needles and lots of wires.  I would venture to say it was probably scared to death being hooked up to so much technology.   

Take the analyzer out of your toolbag and put in two plugs, two coils, two hall sensors, and a brain box.  All that takes up less room, and then you'll be able to fix the problem instead of just knowing what part to order when the towman arrives.   

[KeLL]

Well the thing is I was able to rule out coil and electrical in about 20 seconds? instead of swapping coils/cables/inspecting wires, etc.
So for a girl.. i prefer the easy method...

and its only 3 wires. A positive cable, negative cable, and the thing that clamps the spark plug cable.

I guess I just wanted people to know this sort of device was out there...

Im not that technical, my friend who loaned it to me told me how to use it..so I wouldn't make a good narrator ..."errr ...so clamp this red cable onto this red side of the battery.. clamp this black cable onto the frame.. clamp this big looking clamp around the spark plug cable. "

[rangerbrown]

i hate apple, i need all theses plug in to watch there stuff, but i dont know which one i need.

[starwalt]

i hate apple, i need all theses plug in to watch there stuff, but i dont know which one i need.

Just load up the lastest version of Quicktime for your OS. When it installs, uncheck everything that allows it to default files to Quicktime.