Sooo.... I may be a little mechanically oriented but electrically I am a total noob. The CDI I have for the Bandit 250 is some aftermarket LXO Lixiandra thing, it says its a bandit 250 GJ74A which is correct for the engine I have....(manufactured by shijiazhuang lixianda tech co ltd). I opened it up, a little bit of surface rust on a few terminals under the board but I cleaned that, and for the most part it looks pretty new. Anyhoo... referencing the following: It says the red probe are the columns and the black probe is the rows, but when I do it that way I get no readings at all. The multimeter is set to 20k, the reference is "kilo ohms" surely I can't be THAT tired? However, if I make the columns the black and the rows the red, I start to get readings. That doesn't make sense to me because the thing shouldn't be a diode, it shouldn't matter which way the probes are the resistance should be the same in both directions? The other issue is, the readings are nothing like what the reference says they should be (generally). For example, the first two columns with readings are: one two five 12.93 12.87 six 2.14 2.13 seven 2.14 2.13 'spose the row five ones are not too far off what they're supposed to be (11.5/11.5). Am I totally off track..??
Its definitely aftermarket, but I would have thought some of the resistances would correspond to the original. Or maybe I'm just wasting my time and it's fine. Nothing to benchmark it against though.
Hey Joker! I just have to respond to this as I went through the same procedures with the OEM module, and also with the new one I purchased from Lixanda. None of the readings made sense to me, and I also had spark immediately after plugging in the new one. For anyone following us, there could be a pattern showing...
Well I know my bike ran, despite struggling with compression so it wasn't the CDI. I'm not sure why there are inaccuracies in the documentation vs what is measured, perhaps the aftermarket ones are set up different electronically.
