I never said any such thing.
Someone has a problem with a Crane ignition system and non-stock
resistor and coil combination. I've made a suggestion, based on
experience with the same, that won't in itself cause problems, since it
is a valid wiring setup.
I presented a description of why the Crane setup might have problems.
You presented an opposing description of why it might not, with no more
knowledge of the internal workings than mine. Effectively, you're saying
it shouldn't cause problems because you would have designed it so it
wouldn't. But you didn't design it and *DON'T* *KNOW*. It still has a
problem. Why don't you tell the lister that he's imagining it?
You're welcome to you opinion, but you've offered no help to the person
with the problem, and instead just seem to be intent on contradicting
me, with no basis for it.
Randall Young wrote:
>
> George Richardson wrote :
> > Someone else felt he needed to attack me for it.
>
> George :
>
> I am not attacking you personally.
>
> Your opinion appears to be that, because you once saw a circuit that needed
> 5 volts, the Crane manual is wrong and the Crane module must be wired
> directly to 12v. Ok, fine, you're entitled to your opinion.
>
> My opinion is that the Crane manual is correct, and that your logic in
> asserting otherwise is fallacious, and that the voltage across the coil is
> almost never 4.714 volts, and ... But, it won't hurt to wire the Crane
> module directly to 12v ...
>
> It's also my opinion that ignoring Crane's instructions as to the ballast
> resistor value used with a low resistance aftermarket coil is likely to lead
> to overheating of the output transistor and subsequent early failure. But
> YMMV.
>
> Randall
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