• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

TE410E/TE610E igniton stator issues.

N

NoMad410

Husqvarna
B Class
I have a TE410E which recently developed an ignition problem and would not start.
Trying to sort it out I realised how poorly supported Husky ignition electrics are, and decided to document my attempt to solve the problem.

I put the thread in the "Older Single Cams" section, as I thought that was the most appropriate, but looking again, I realise that TE410E has far more in common with the 610s and shares the same ignition with TE610Es and SM610Ss from 2000-2006. So I am adding a link to it in this section, and hoping that someone knowledgeable in Husky electric may have something to add.

At the time of writing this I am considering options like rewinding the excitor coil (which is expired) or finding a solution that does not involve any excitor coil at all.

You can read the whole saga, as it develops, here. (reading from post #8 will allow you to skip my initial bafflement and frustration :) )
If any mods think that the thread is better suited in this section, feel free to move it.
 
Hi -
I am pleased to say that I have fixed the problem of the burnt out excitor coil on the stator.

Rather than buy a new alternator (expensive, and could well burn out again) I rewound the excitor coil with a much thicker gauge wire, and then used an external transformer to step up the voltage. It seems to work very well, plus I think the new winding will be less prone to burn-out, than the ultra-fine previous one. If the transformer burns out, it can be replaced in a minute, without having to open the alternator cover.

I will monitor this long term, and post accordingly, but it may be useful as a solution to others, as well.
The link above will get you to the thread.
 
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