Trevor,
Thanks for the heads up. There are a lot of confused people, then , me
included.
I guess the bottom line for me is that my brief survey suggests few if any
problems with the Ignitor; not so with the commonly-available Crane.
Jeff
>Jeff Boatright wrote:
>> I've just conducted a two-evening survey of scores of discussions (lbc,
>> american iron, japanese car lists, etc) on the web concerning the Crane
>> Cams XR-700 and the Pertronix Ignitor. It is very important to consider the
>> difference between the two. The Ignitor is simply a Hall effect trigger.
>> The Crane is a capacitive discharge ignition module that uses an optical
>> trigger.
>
> I am reasonably sure that the XR-700 is *NOT* a capacitive discharge
>unit. I beleive there is a Crane unit that is, but the 700 is not it.
>
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
Jeff Boatright
Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Vision
http://www.emory.edu/molvis
"Seeing the Future in a Very Tiny Way"
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