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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,743 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,743 | OK, it looks like the points are not the source of any unwanted voltage drop. It's possible you're trying to run an internal-resistor coil in combination with a ballast resistor, which will drop the current so much that the ballast resistor isn't functioning at the correct voltage drop. If that's the case, your coil performance will be severely compromised. It requires a basic understanding of some very simple Ohm's Law principles to make an ignition system work properly, but most people are unwilling to learn anything about basic electricity before they start shotgunning parts at an ignition system. Then they really jump the shark and install some horrendously expensive electronic ignition system with proprietary parts that will strand them in Lower Slobbovia at the worst possible time when all that was needed was the proper original-equipment parts to begin with. Jerry
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