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>Both these wires are joined with a solderless lucar
>connector and are attached to a "ceramic" thing which is attached to the
>coil mount bracket. Then a blue wire goes from this ceramic piece to the
>positive terminal on the coil.
>Does this seem like a stock set up? Is the shoelace wire the resistor
>wire? Or is the ceramic piece the thing which adds the resistance? How
>do I convert this set up accept the Lucas Sport coil? The sport coil has
>no ceramic external pieice like the Lucas coil in there now.
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Peter,
That 'ceramic thing' is the resistor. all you need do is bypass this
resistor to run your sport coil (or other coil that doesn't rquire a
ballast). just connect together, with a double ended spade connector, the
wires going to both ends of the resistor. This will bypass the ballast
resistor and at the same time allow you to convert it back any time you chose.
Barry Schwartz in San Diego, CA
Bschwartz@encad.com
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