Saving Old Seagulls

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Found this in the local scrap yard. The Villiers motor was built in Ballarat Victoria. It turns over freely & I will dismantle it & clean up & hopefully will go again. Does any one know anything about this outboard?

Speaking of Chinese outboards, my daughter purchased a Parsun Chinese outboard, they are water cooled & worked ok for a bout 12months regular work in & out to a Yacht, then sold it The main problem was it did not like running for very long over 3/4 throttle it would just stop & was then hard to ...

An SCR / Thyristor is a Silicon Controled Rectifier or a switching device, which is used in the circuit of a CDI ignition system.

Generaly in my experience of Johnson/Evinrude the SCR in the CDI unit is what fails.

Interesting that none of the pictures in this thread are viewable any more. The pictures of the module & modified circuit, are on photo bucket debe5.

ATOM copy on VICTA.JPG ATOM MOD.10.JPG ATOM MOD.9.JPG ATOM MOD red circ.jpg After more testing found this transistor will shutdown then will restart. The problem appears to the large HV spike across the transistor. The solution appears to be fit a 1.5KE200A (1N6303A) Transorb . This seems to fix ...

If they are only 2 pin then they should work.

Use this circuit to measure the voltage from the coil primary, you should get about 5-6Vdc when spining the flywheel. Its fairly rare for the primary windings to fail. The Mazda tribute coil. Has it got 2 or 3 pins on the conector? if its got 3 then its not suitable.

This thing goes great clocked it on the 10Ft tinny using a GPS at 8Knots & up & planning, realy happy with it.

ATOM MOD.6.JPG ATOM MOD.7.JPG ATOM MOD.8.JPG More construction. Due to diferent pulse polarity betwean Villiers & Wipac coils they are wired differently. Using the colour of the wires in the assembled picture. The Wipac is wired Black to ground & Red to the coil. Villiers is Black to coil & Red to ...

Construction.

ATOM IGN MODULE improved.2.JPG Had a bit of a break through with finding a suitable switching transistor for this unit. I discovered 2SD1071 transistors were used in a Kawasaki motorbike ign system. It has a rating of 450V & works well in the circuit with Wipac & Villiers coils. The 2SD1071 ...

I have tried a COP of a BA ford falcon just to see if it would work. It did run but mever tried it out on the back of the boat.

I thaught in the old days before WD40, you used a rag soaked in the old fuel & wiped down the Seagull to leave a protective oily film.