Jim - if you write up a post elsewhere and paste it here you need to change the dropbox below the reply screen to "using HTML and UBBCode"

sounds like it just might be the ignition resistor, have you tried bypassing it? otherwise I'd think the voltage drop might be a loose connection someplace

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics