I've been doing a lot more playing with the Ignitech TCI-P4 units and discovered a lot more stuff to add to my earlier posts in this forum. Here is a quick summary of some key things I have discovered. It's easy to corrupt the map without knowing it. I recently created a fresh new map and config on a unit in stock which was IDENTICAL to the one I was running on the bike. I swapped the units over and suddenly got much crisper running. So I sucked the map off the new unit and downloaded it onto the old unit which I then reinstalled in the bike .....and suddenly the engine ran much much better on the old unit. Ignitech recently released some new firmware for the units a while back that you can load into an earlier unit using a boot loader. The new firmware has a number of new features and again seems to make the bike run marginally better. You can get this new firmware free from Ignitech if you ask. (it's not downloadable from their web page). The new features are currently undocumented in the current manual...more on this in a moment. Ignitech's seem to be more tolerant of poor/weak pick up signals than the original Kukasans. We found this out by doing some back to back testing on one customers bike that ran badly on known good Kukasan units. Which seems to be one of several reasons some bikes run soo much better with the Ignitech units. The original pickups on the old carby Ducati 900s were probably marginal in performance when they were new and now they are over 10 years old. Even if the resistance of these test OK they can be problematic. I suggest to get the best out of them that you mount them closer to the flywheel than the factory specs recommend. I have just done this on a bike where we could see with a tester had intermittent and weak pulses coming out of the pickups and the difference in performance was an absolute revelation. I am currently rewriting a new unofficial Ignitech manual from an editable copy of the original that Jiri at Ignitech sent me in an attempt to: improve the English - just a little - as mines not great either. add explanations on how it works (pieced to gather by assumptions and information I requested from Ignitech), add more detail, document the extra features that the new firmware gives you access to. E.g. It is now possible to get more advance and fire the spark plug before the leading edge of the lobe. Before maximum advance was limited by the length of the lobe on the flywheel. Many people think that the maximum advance you can run before you get pre-ignition or detonation will give you the maximum power. This is absolutely erroneous and I am finalizing a theory section on this to be an appendix to the manual (it's a fairly technical section - so best to put it in an appendix) If anyone wants a free copy of my new unofficial manual (complete with errors and incorrect assumptions - no doubt) they can email me (don't PM me) and I will send it to them. I am will also be sending my revised version back to Jiri at Ignitech so it is possible they will adopt parts of it into their official manual. Liam Venter [email protected] FastBikeGear, Importers and Distributors of Motorcycle Accessories
