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I can’t explain why after decades of bike riding, but I don’t understand dwell, in the same way that I don’t really understand the structure and rules of music, despite decades of listening to it.Can someone explain what the old boy did, and why it was different to setting the bike to just opening the points at the timing marks?
I think the actual dwell on the Hondas is about 50% (180deg or 45 on a 4 cyl scale) Correct me if I'm far out.What I am not clear on is that the dwell is set to give the inductive coil sufficient time to fully "charge" and also not over tax the coil. But is it set so this is sufficient time at maximum rpm? (3.3ms at 9000 rpm) And therefore an overly long time at lower revs.Also are electronic ignitions set so the give a fixed charge time at all rpms? So power drawn will be a lot less at idle say.