Magdynos

Magdynos

Obviously, everything mentioned on the previous Magnetos and Dynamos* pages applies to magdynos which are 'just' a combination of the two......... 
That is certainly true of the later magdynos which were simply a magneto with a body casting shaped to accept a standard dynamo bolted on top: 
Lucas MN2 
Earlier magdynos had the dynamo and magneto sections as two independent units housed in one aluminium body......
Lucas MDB
In very early magdynos, the dynamo and magneto units shared the magnet and/or the armature windings.
Lucas Magdynette

OK, so these examples are all Lucas magdynos - actually, the term 'magdyno' was originally a Lucas term anyway. Other manufacturers producing combined magneto/dynamo products had to use other names - BTH referred to theirs as a 'dyno-mag' and ML produced the 'Maglita' for instance - but the 'magdyno' seems to have now become a generic term for all of them.
This Bosch unit combines everything - magneto and distributor plus the dynamo and voltage regulator/cutout - all in one unit.
Bosch RJMU 4

There are many more pictures of 'magdynos' in our Gallery section and more information on the Maglita is available in our Technical section.

*Regrettably, The Magneto Guys no longer work on 'stand alone' dynamos - see the FAQs page for details. However we will continue to work on the dynamo section of 'all-in-one' magdynos as part of a complete repair/overhaul operation
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