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Originally Posted by john rogers
My 1960 Harley had a magneto (John Deer tractor) for ignition and a lick start and a big ass'd capacitor in place of the battery. It had a generator but it was really small. The only issue was no lights unless the engine was running.
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Heh. I used to run my '64 XLH without a battery entirely. But the lights got really dim at idle and flickered pretty bad at low RPM. So I added a capacitor. Which worked great until the polarity on the generator reversed itself (which apparently they will do every now and again without a battery to "tell" the regulator what the correct polarity is). Which would make short work of the cap...