Technical Hand accelerator control

[stocky]

Does anyone know
1) why you need this when you have a choke lever?
2) where it connects to, mine has no cable attached.
Item 9 on attached drg.
Assume the 500 has one also, cant quite remember on my last one.

 

[the hobbler]

Does anyone know
1) why you need this when you have a choke lever?
2) where it connects to, mine has no cable attached.
Item 9 on attached drg.
Assume the 500 has one also, cant quite remember on my last one.

Ther should be a short cable running down from the handle of the 'hand-throttle' to the back of the accelerator pedal. I have always assumed that is there so that the throttle can be held open slightly for a fast warm-up---the choke has to be progressively 'shut-down'. It is NOT a cruise-control as somebody (on this forum) once thought that it was.

 

[Ant Knox]

As Tom says, it's useful for cold starts. It's generally advised to put in the choke as soon as possible (the theory being that over-richening can wash oil from the bores), so I tend to use it to run a fast idle after starting whilst doing my 'pre-flight' checks (lights etc.).