OK - dumb question, but how do I know if I need a ballast resistor and what
capicity/where should it be wired? Have the afore-mentioned Mallory
set-up, currently running with a Bosch Blue coil, no visible resistor
anywhere. The GT6 has a totally bastardized wiring system - very little
stock left (rear wiring harness bits) but no resistor anywhere.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Boruch" <jaboruch@netzero.net>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Mallory condenser problems
>I also do not run an alternator and had a ballast resistor, but kept having
> failed condensers. Maybe the Accel Super Coil was not a good match, but
> the
> combination did work well for years. Joe(B)
>
> -- "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com> wrote:
> There's nothing magic about the Mallory condensors (capacitors)--anything
> will
> work just as well. Condensers ideally are matched to the coil and ballast
> resistor, the distributor type doesn't matter except that dual point
> distys
> have really long dwell so the coil gets well saturated.
>
> I haven't had much problem with my mallory capacitors, but it's probably
> for
> two reasons--I run straight battery so my system runs at lower voltage,
> and I
> have a ballast resistor permanently wired in place.
>
> The condensors have to handle about 400 volts, that's what the voltage may
> climb to when the points open and the magnetic flux collapses.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces+billb=bnj.com@autox.team.net on behalf of Robert Lang
> Sent: Thu 9/13/2007 12:51 PM
> To: TeriAnn Wakeman
> Cc: Friends of Triumph
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Mallory condenser problems
>
> Hi,
>
> Last time I bought some of the Mallory 400 condensers, the packaging
> listed the rating of the part, I think it's .28 microfarads.
>
> I know that NAPA has replacement condensors that look the same (same can,
> same connector) but have a blue wire, not orange like the Mallory. The
> NAPA part works, but I never stress tested to make sure that they work
> exactly the same as the Mallory part.
>
> I think the alternate replacement part is for a Jeep, but I could be
> wrong. It was def. a "drop-in" replacement.
>
> regards,
> rml
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