Electric start No BAttery??

[omar]

i want to know if i can get an electric start with no battery

 

[B man]

no. hint the ELECTRIC start. requires battery.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Your question is vague, at best. If you're asking if you can USE an electric start engine without a battery, then yes- you can jump start it, or use the pullstart if equipped. There are also snowblower engines out there that use 120v household current (extension cord) to start the engine if you're too lazy to pull. Can you GET an electric start without a battery? Sure. Battery sold seperately.

Now- suppose you detail your question a little more thoroughly...

 

[brandongeiger2]

power drill!!! (not cordless)

 

[CaptCanadia]

lol that will prob destroy the gear or the flywheel.

 

[brandongeiger2]

lol that will prob destroy the gear or the flywheel.

yup did on my old tec hahaha but how else do you get an engine started electronicly without a battery?hahaha

 

[CaptCanadia]

put a big solar panel on the top and rig it up

 

[Bluethunder3320]

alot of tecumseh snow engines have 120v starters. plug in an extension cord and press the button.

 

[omar]

how do i hook up a battery though.. like what do i connect it to

 

[brandongeiger2]

Well to start with what kind of engine do you have, and do you have all the necessary parts other than the battery or do you just need wiring help???

 

[brandongeiger2]

put a big solar panel on the top and rig it up

hahaha or....you could pull start it

 

[omar]

i want to know how to hook up to the engine or where do u hook it up..its a 6hp tecumseh

 

[brandongeiger2]

well do you have the starter motor and flywheel gear ring to turn the engine over?

 

[omar]

no i dont want to know how to set up a ignition..i want to know does the battery charge if its just right there..a car has an alternator for that

 

[brandongeiger2]

you would need an alternator type thing to recharge that battery so my ideas have been to run a belt from the crankshaft to a one wire alternator plug up the the acc cord to the batery and plug the ground from the batt to the metal of the alternator that should charge the battery than for a starter you would need to connect the acc to a 1 wire switch and the ground to the metal part to allow power to go to the starter motor to spin the fly wheel now im not sure if you can find parts like this for 6hp engines mostly engines 14hp+ only have starters so you would need to get a bigger and heavier flywheel from a bigger motor which means bad performance i thought about putting electric start on my 6hp tec too

 

[fowler]

if u are fitting an after market electric start then u will need an altinator

if your engine already has electric start out of the facory then it will charge its self as it is fitted with all the components

but u will need a battery to store the power

there is no engine that has a built in battery

if the motor already had a startor then u should have two leads to connect it up

 

[CaptCanadia]

hahaha or....you could pull start it

what if it breaks!?!?!

Okay but seriously...on topic...If the engine isn't equipped with an electric starter it isn't really worth it at all..you'd be better off just buying an electric start. The flywheel and alt and starter will run u in the hundreds...the flywheel about 150 alone. Just move ur lazy *** arm and pull the rope. That's what they told me when I asked this question.

 

[brandongeiger2]

Yeah if you can find a greyhound engine (old blue HF engine) over 11hp most have electric start there better than the 6hp power sport tecs in my mind and are easier to find parts for...

It was a pain in the a$$ starting my tec after i messed with the governor and unknowingly took off the compression release he might have that problem and i think that's also the prob with his not working correctly(loss of compression??) i'm not really sure at least i blew my engine after the governor was disconnected.

 

[Doc Sprocket]

It was a pain in the a$$ starting my tec after i messed with the governor

It simply requires an adjustment of your starting procedure.

unknowingly took off the compression release

How in god green earth do you "unknowingly" defeat the compression relief mechanism???

he might have that problem

I doubt it- I can't imagine the odds against two people doing that.

his not working correctly(loss of compression??)

If his compression is insufficient, he's got much larger issues to tackle before concerning himself with the luxury of electric start.

ALL of the engines I have start within two pulls, stock OR modified. With the engine correctly tuned, the only REAL benefit to electric start is a charging system.

ALSO- with a compression issue, electric start won't do much either...

 

[brandongeiger2]

Well i thought it was part of the governor so yeah..... i learned my lesson ha all i really meant to say is i had some problems similar to mine so i was shooting out ideas why mine was perfoming like his. Also what i meant with my tec being hard to start is when the piston reached tdc it felt almost impossible to pull not that it just wouldent start...