[Spridgets] Pertronix woes..

[Steven Guterman]

Dean,

I had a Pertonix Ignitor I that bit the dust earlier this year after I
hooked up a 0.45 ohm coil.  When I called them I was told the Ignitor II was
much more robust and would not have burnt out. I was also told the ignitor I
will burn out if the car is not running but the ignition is left on.

 I ended up upgrading to the ignitor II for $60. So far it is working OK but
very little running time.

 Which one did you have?

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dean Hedin <dlh2001 at comcast.net> wrote:

> My Pertronix finally bit the dust last Sunday.
>
> On Saturday I had driven the Sprite to Kintnersville and back for
> The Brit's on the Delaware gathering.  Car ran great.  It was 40 minute
> drive there and back.  Unfortunately, not a big turnout in Kintnersville.
>
> At Kintnersville, a fellow with a yellow TR-3 mentioned a show in
> Warminster, PA on Sunday, the next day.  This is about 4 miles away from
> me.
> I told him I'd meet him there.
>
> On Sunday the car died about a mile away from the show.  My brother was
> kind
> enough to come haul me home.
>
> I've been using the Pertronix to trigger the MSD unit I built earlier this
> year.  It's been a wonderful setup all summer. I've taken the car on many
> long trips.  Cold startup has awsome, I don't even have to run the choke.
>
> It's only tonight that I got around to doing an autopsy to figure out what
> broke.  I was worried that the MSD unit is what broke, but it turned out to
> be the Pertronix.
>
> What I discovered is that in the distributor, the ground wire from the
> plate
> that holds the points (or pertronix in my case) fatigued and broke from
> age.
> That's apparently what killed the Pertronix, the loss of a good ground
> connection.
>
> Now I am in a quandary.  Do I trigger with points or go and investigate
> a Pertronix competitor like this http://tinyurl.com/29z43ot or this
> http://tinyurl.com/3afb35a
>
> ??
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