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Originally Posted by scottrx7tt View Post
Yes, MS3 will run COP directly. the original poster has a MS1 V3, which won't run spark at all. The Microsquirt will run a 4 cylinder COP, but not a 6 cylinder without some modifications. It would STILL be a wasted spark set up. EDIS is just much simpler. In order to go sequential COP, you would need a Cam position sensor, which complicates things just a little bit more. I guess it is how technical you want to get with it. With my setup EDIS was stone cold reliable, and i was also able to concoct a wasted spark COP system.
What's the drawback with a wasted spark configuration? As long as the non-wasted spark happens at the correct time.

Are there issues with coil charge rates, dwell, or coils heating up, or something I'm missing that makes a wasted spark setup so much less desirable? Or is it just the elegance of sequential that is so seductive?

AFAICT Microsquirt can run 6 cyl wasted spark setup with CNP. Not sure about COP, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why 3wire COP is so different than a CNP setup.
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