how does heat affect the cdi box?

[E.L. Green]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Gary" wrote:

> existing holes in the top of the KLR overflow jug bracket.The CDI box > is about 2 inches behind the radiator and will catch a good bit of > heat from the radiator. > Is the heat going to kill the CDI box?Any thoughts?

I would be very wary of running the CDI box in that location, it will easily go above 60C and 60C is the temperature at which electronics start to go haywire. It's hard to make any hard and fast rule about the CDI box without knowing what's inside it, but I do the temperature specification for a number of different electronic components as part of hardware monitoring systems for clustered computer systems, and the temperature specifications on these things go anywhere from 60C to 100C (boiling! whoa! Yep, there's some Intel and AMD processors that are spec'ed to 100C!). Putting the CDI box immediately behind a radiator that can get that hot is probably not a good idea... -E