Oh, that's pretty clever!!! Never thought of that approach. Thanks!
At 09:41 AM 10/1/2006, Larry Young wrote:
>My only experience is with Pertronix. I don't find these difficult
>to diagnose. Most of us old geezers that grew up with points
>automatically assume the Ignitor has failed when we have ignition
>problems. The first thing they do is put points back in. My first
>test is to attach a known good spark plug directly to the
>coil. This removes the rotor, cap, wires and spark plug from the
>equation. If I get a spark on all cylinders, then there is nothing
>wrong with the ignitor, so you can go on to check cap, rotor, wires
>and spark plug. If you get a spark on some, but not all cylinders,
>then the magnetic ring is bad. If you get no sparks, then the
>Ignitor is not working. I recently used this approach on my TR250
>to determine that one magnet in the magnetic ring was flipped over
>so the wrong pole was facing outward. This is the way it came out
>of the box. I suppose you could also have a bad coil. My
>experience is that coils seldom fail, but you could swap that out
>with a good one to confirm.
>Larry Young
>
>Jack W. Drews wrote:
>
>>I only have experience with three different electronic ignition
>>systems, so I'm not an expert on them. The one thing they have is
>>common, for me as a racer / user, is that when something goes
>>wrong, it is hard to find what it is and usually impossible to fix,
>>unless I have whole redundant system along with me. If I have a
>>conventional system, I can fix it with a continuity tester and a
>>small supply of relatively cheap parts -- it's got to be the wire
>>coming to the system, or the cap, rotor, points, condenser, or coil.
>>
>>I used an electronic ignition system in m race car for ten years
>>and it worked okay, but when it did fail I had to put in a
>>conventional distributor to find out if the brain box was bad.
>>Likewise last week when my TR6 suddenly quit running and coasted to
>>a stop -- I had no idea if the Prtronix quit or something else happened.
>>
>>uncle jack
>
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