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21. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:31:46 EST; Jed: I would agree with you wholeheartedly - in order to benefit from the dual points in a Mallory, you would have to have two coils, which would be overkill for a street driven MG. A stock ignition; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01294.html (9,123 bytes)
22. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: "REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER" <CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:36:00 -0800 (PST); Where did you get the idea that you need two coils to take advantage of a mallory dual point distributor or that you could even hook this up if you so desired? The purpose of the dual points it to i; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01297.html (9,789 bytes)
23. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 11:51:04 -0800; My 2=A2... The distributor in my midget was sloppy (loose shaft). No way it would have worked with points. No way I could afford a new one at that time. So, I got an Ignitor electronic ignition. It t; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01298.html (9,532 bytes)
24. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:09:34 -0600; Well, shoot. I was doing so well, too. But I've been smelling some mental farts on this thread so I guess I gotta butt in and clear the air (pitiful metaphors, all). BIAS: I have a Mallory Dual poin; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01309.html (15,531 bytes)
25. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:29:38 -0500; That's simply not true. The voltage will not "sit" on the rotor waiting for the proper gap before firing. The voltage appears at the rotor when produced by the coil. It will either arc to the metal i; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01312.html (9,858 bytes)
26. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 19:05:50 EST; so Chris: I got the idea from the hundreds of dual point/dual coil installations I've seen in the last fourty years or so (mostly in the first half of those fourty years - advances in ignition techno; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01317.html (11,689 bytes)
27. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Gregory Kirk <gkirk@empirenet.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:34:42 -0800; Actually, as I understand it (please correct me if I'm wrong) the coil is in essence a large capacitor, whose fucntion is to hold a charge until such time as there is a path to ground. So the charge; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01320.html (9,075 bytes)
28. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:49:01 -0800; In that it holds energy yes, except that it holds it inductively not capacitively. And yes, the rotor helps provide that path to ground. The points make/break so the coil can charge. Points closed, c; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01322.html (9,537 bytes)
29. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: mmcewen@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (John McEwen); Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 18:49:54 -0500; Hi Dan: Dual points with single coil were standard equipment on all Chrysler hemi-engines from 1951 - 1958. John McEwen; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01323.html (12,334 bytes)
30. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: "Leigh Egbert" <leigh@eznet.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 21:09:30 -0500; --Original Message-- From: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com> To: CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu <CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu>; JedPiper@earthlink.net <JedPiper@earthlink.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.te; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01327.html (9,470 bytes)
31. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:43:55 EST; John: Thanks for the input. I'm still curious as to why, though. And how they were wired. Dan Masters, Alcoa, TN '71 TR6--3000mile/year driver, fully restored '71 TR6--undergoing full restoration and; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01340.html (8,604 bytes)
32. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: DANMAS <DANMAS@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:50:12 EST; "charge" Leigh: This has me puzzled. If they are wired in series, then as soon as one opens, they might as well both be open. If they are out of phase, then one would close slightly later than the ot; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01342.html (8,818 bytes)
33. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>; Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 22:28:35 -0600; In parallel and slightly out of phase. Primary wire to a lug on the outer case. Condensor attaches there and is mounted externally. Two wires off the inner lug, one to each set of points. I have mode; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01344.html (8,227 bytes)
34. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: "A. B. Bonds" <ab@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>; Date: 18 Dec 1997 09:06:07 -0600; You would be wrong. A coil is an inductor. It stores energy in a magnetic field, not in an electric field. As soon as the points open, that magnetic field collapses, no matter whether there is a path; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01363.html (8,362 bytes)
35. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 20:05:42 +0000; The ignition coil is a transformer and a collapsing magnetic field in the primary, caused by the opening of the points, induces a voltage in the secondary (many more turns of wire than the primary, s; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01446.html (9,220 bytes)
36. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 20:11:45 +0000; That doesn't seem logical. Single points can be adjusted to any dwell from fully closed to fully open and everything in between. We adjust them to a specific figure because that gives us the best com; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01449.html (7,921 bytes)
37. distributor (score: 1): Author: Enrique Claure <span@datacom-bo.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:41:08 -0400; Hi MGers, I just took a look at my 77Bs distributor and it is really beat. It is a points distributor that I would like to replace. If I buy the cams electronic ignition setup, what would the perfect; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01623.html (7,666 bytes)
38. distributor (score: 1): Author: Enrique Claure <span@datacom-bo.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 21:00:45 -0400; It is a points distributor that I would like to replace. If I buy the cams electronic ignition setup, what would the perfect match distributor be considering price and permormance (price of 1st impo; /html/mgs/1997-12/msg01703.html (7,818 bytes)
39. Distributor (score: 1): Author: "Paul M. Schwerdt" <ps@ecst.csuchico.edu>; Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 13:45:13 -0800 (PST); Still working on that distributor. Thanks for all the help so far, but I am still coming up empty. I took the distributor out again and checked the isulation. (this was the most widely suggested reme; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00448.html (6,702 bytes)
40. Re: Distributor (score: 1): Author: larryhoy@juno.com (Larry A Hoy); Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 18:07:40 EST; Paul you write: Paul what does the above statement mean? Is your starter not turning the engine? Are you getting spark from the coil wire? Are you getting spark from the plug wires? Larry Hoy 1969 MG; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00453.html (7,215 bytes)

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