
To set the correct ignition timing you can use a more reliable system — with strobe lights, but the easiest way to do the following.
In the ignition coil high-voltage plug-in candle wire of such a length that it had before the rotor and set the ignition, as recommended in the instructions: the value of the advance 3-3. 5 mm before top dead centre (TDC) and the position of the projection on the winding frame of the sensor opposite the groove in the shank of the rotor.

The time of occurrence of spark:
1 — stator, 2 — rotor, 3 longitudinal groove, 4 — bare end wires, 5 — clay, 6 — coil sensor.
Now, the coil fastened (even clay) high voltage wire with bare end so that it is defended from the rotor by 3-4 mm. Rotating the rear wheels in direct transmission included (maps, tillers on a stand), you can see the moment of the sparks (the test should be carried out in a darkened room). The spark should slip in the direction of the rotor just at the combination of the groove with the bare end of the wire. If it occurs sooner or later, that is hits the groove, and next, it is necessary to amend to make the rotor mark with a chisel, which later put on the ignition, turning the generator stator in one direction or another.
D. SUKACHEV, Novgorod