030av mystery part

[ad8chd]

So my 030av wouldn’t run right. After months of phone calls I was ably to track down a rebuild for the tillotson carb (I’m in the mountains, amazon doesn’t come here) rebuilt and ran great for one tank. Now I’ve got no spark. I think it’s this things fault but I’m not sure what the hell this thing is. I was thinking condensor but I thought those only had two leads, and I can’t figure out how the spark plug lead would be on a condensor when it belongs on the coil. But this wasn’t behind my flywheel so how could it be a coil? It was installed incredibly inexpertly by the previous owner I’m assuming, Imagine a crimp connectior with a piece of speaker wire twisted on the terminal the other side of said speaker wire twisted onto that little nub of wire wrapped in electrical tape and then that other littler nub of wire went absolutely nowhere. I’m still scratching my head as to how the saw ever ran at all anyway here’s a picture of the thing, if anybody knows what I’m dealing with I would sure appreciate knowing as well. Thank you in advance.

 

[trains]

looks like a well and truly bodged kill wire, or short wire, ie it grounds out the coil and stops spark, ie its connected to the off switch.

look at the ipl for what is there on your saw, page 12/13

attached ipl for you to help.

 

[ad8chd]

looks like a well and truly bodged kill wire, or short wire, ie it grounds out the coil and stops spark, ie its connected to the off switch.

look at the ipl for what is there on your saw, page 12/13

attached ipl for you to help.

Thank you for the reply. You’ve answered one question (it is the coil) and opened up a handful more. I’m not completely hopeless when it comes to these small engines, this guy here is a little older than my knowledge goes. I got some studying to do. I don’t know that it’s my kill wire because the switch is still on there and it’s still got a good wire on it, which I don’t know if this is the original toggle switch or not, but it’s a three position switch so I don’t really know what that’s all about, does anybody know roundabout where the condenser would be located on this thing? Also, in that exploded view there’s what looks like it says a condenser, but I can’t really tell by looking at the drawing and a capacitor, I was under the impression that would only have one of those two things. Thanks again in advance, I really like this old saw it’s a beast. When it first started giving me trouble I brought it to the saw shop and he ran inspection camera, and the cylinder is like immaculate. He was thoroughly impressed with it. Probably because these guys run 32 to one instead of 50 thanks again to everybody. Hopefully I can get this sucker going before it gets too cold cause I don’t have any firewood.

 

[pioneerguy600]

The condenser is mounted under the flywheel along with the points.

 

[Old2stroke]

Looks like it’s a 2 part system with a trigger unit at the flywheel that sends spark energy to a separate coil that is just a transformer. If so, that butchered wire should connect the coil to the trigger unit #29. If you only have one small wire from the coil, you probably have the electronic coil and no breaker points or capacitor #8