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Oops! Re: Radio suppression

To: Randall Young <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Subject: Oops! Re: Radio suppression
From: Randall <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 12:28:55 -0700
Cc: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <01BEC497.C88E3020.ryoung@navcomtech.com>
I meant of course, for negative ground cars, the suppressor goes on the
_positive_ coil terminal.

Sorry.

Randall Young wrote:
> 
> It's probably worth mentioning that the suppressor goes on the switch side
> of the coil, not the points side.  For cars converted to negative ground,
> this should be the negative terminal of the coil, but it's not uncommon to
> find an improperly done conversion.
> So, the safe thing to do is trace the wire from the distributor to the
> coil, then put the suppressor on the _other_ low tension terminal.
> 
> On Thursday, July 01, 1999 12:17 PM, jonmac [SMTP:jonmac@ndirect.co.uk]
> wrote:
> >
> > Brian
> > Seems like you don't have a suppressor on the coil. They must still be
> > around and any halfway decent car audio shop should have a box of them
> > lurking somewhere. What I've got is a 0.5 microfarad suppressor
> sandwiched
> > in place by the coil mounting plate where it bolts to the engine block.
> The
> > one lead coming off the suppressor is clipped to the negative terminal on
> > the coil. It's possible you may also be getting interference from the
> dynamo
> > if that's what you have? This was certainly a problem in days of yore and
> > suppressors were fitted to the dynamo and coil at the same time as a
> matter
> > of course. Problem solved - for me, anyway
> >
> > Jonmac
> >

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