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Old 10-10-2011, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by BlueRooster View Post
Great video Patrick! I now have a quick Columbus day project.
Let me also add that if you have a MSD Ignition, or the like, that the test DOES NOT APPLY and that you will not have 12V power (or less) on the plus side of the coil. The reason 12V won’t be there is that a capacitive discharge ignition uses a big-ass capacitor to discharge several hundred volts to the coil. Some electronic ignitions do use a ballast resistor, so you really have to tell us what's under there, along with what your readings are on the volt meter. But if you do have a plain vanilla, stock inductive ignition, and you have no voltage at the coil, then you've found your problem.
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