Hot Ignitor Wont Run!!!
 

Okay lets just say im MAD so ive been sick all week and out of work and the weather has been freezing so today I go out to start it and the batterys dead GREAT! so i used my roomates car to jump it and crank it a few times and it starts but WTF its idling like total shit??? and pop the hood and HOLY shit the ignitor was so hot it burned my finger :mad: so i shut the car off and here i am now have had the MS with the same msq file for the past month and no problems havent changed anything so why now is the ignitor about to burst into flames and car idling horribly what do i need to check in my msq? buy a new ignitor? coils? where do i buy these this is my DD so fixing needs to be ASAP! all help is greatly appreciated also where do i get an ignitor?

The MS is very 12V sensitive, if it isn't at 12V, it will run like crap.

Does your car run?

Did you try trickle charging the battery? or just jumping it?

AGM batterys need to trickle (2A or less) to fully replenish, jumping doesn't really help out the battery or stabilize the 12V for the MS.

You can get a new ignitor from the mazda dealer. They're like $100 or something like that.
Check the MSQ, make sure it's set to "spark inverted - NO" if it was set to yes somehow that will cause your ignitor to get hot and "fry" like that.
Also make sure your dwell isn't all messed up.

the car will run but like crap stall and missing well after jumping it i let it idle for a while to charge the battery then shut it off and it started right up the 2nd time and same result hot ignitor bad idle

okay so inverted was NO on all my msq that were ever loaded! and my dwell settings are this cranking is 5.5 and running is 3.5 and .5 minimum discharge???? anything wrong with that and would just cranking on the car with a low battery burn out the ignitor?

A low battery shouldn't cause that issue. Unless the low battery caused something in the MS to corrupt somehow and it switched to inverted - yes
That actually happened to be one time but it had to do with the DB9-USB adapter i was using. Happened to another guy as well, turned his to inverted and it fried his coils. I was lucky to catch mine before starting the car.

Im pretty much just pissed off about it its a pain in the ass to wait for one to ship when its my DD so im jsut asking ?s to prevent this from happening again?

how do i know if its the coils or ignitor???

90% of the time it's the ignitor that burns out. You did say it is the part that got hot. It's always good to have a spare anyway.

hey man thanks for all your help and advice i really appreciate it gonna try to find one!

wish i had read this thread two hours ago. Just burnt out the ignitor on my friends '94 ... doh.