Jim and George wrote:
>>Just out of curiosity, why would there be constant voltage to the coil
when the car's off? Isn't that how gasoline engines are typically shut
off, by opening the circuit?
Jim Ruwaldt
'72 TR6 CC79338U
Bloomington, IN
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, George Richardson wrote:
> If you've got constant voltage to the coil, with no resistor in place,
> I'd expect you'd be seeing a current draw when the car is off. This
> would be a sometimes type of thing, depending on the position of the
> distributor when the engine stops turning.
>
> Such a constant current *might* fry a coil, but I'm don't think it
> should. The coil should be made to take such conditions. Doesn't mean it
> was though.<<
There isn*t ALWAYS voltage to the coil, even if that*s what I said
when I said it had 12 volts constant. (I categorically reserve the right
to be entirely obtuse at all times for no apparent reason.) The coil is
getting no voltage
in the *off* key position, but it also is getting 12 volts in both *run* and
*start*
from the white/yellow wire feeding it. Of that situation, Dan Masters says
this:
>>In all Triumphs that I am familiar with, including the GT-6 ...
[snip] the white/yellow wire should have the full 12 volts on it ONLY
while starting.<<
So then what¹s up with my GT6-3? And would it matter that the coil is getting
a constant (there*s that word again) 12 volts (except when its *off*) if I
install an internally-ballasted Lucas Sport Coil?
I*m feeling quesy. I think I have perplexia again.
--
Martin Secrest
73 GT6
74 Spitfire
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