It will run with just a coil and a sparkplug.........Everyone goes too deep with these simple things........The engines are the same as backpack blower engines and weeedeater types and yes they have e-start weedeaters and backpack blowers........The chinese jazz them up to look more advanced than they really are to make you think youre getting a huge value for your money...actually it gets you stuck in a spending trap.............Good Luck