[Healeys] Petronix

[J.Aeckerlin]

Mark,
It's a pity that, when you were in Holland some years ago and we met, 
the 123Ignition unit wasn't available for our Healeys yet. The 123 has a 
beautiful metal housing, complete with drive shaft and drive dog, a 
Bosch distributor cap and a Bosch rotor. The only external connections 
(besides the plug and coil wires) are a red and a black thin wire, 
nothing else. You would have loved it! (And of course, because I'm 
Dutch, I'm a bit proud of this magnificent piece of electronics with 16 
different advance curves to choose from, automatic cut-off after 1 sec 
to prevent coil overheating and so on). Have a look at their site 
123ignition.nl (In English, with pictures and instruction manual telling 
you everything).
No financial interest bla bla, just a proud Dutch owner of a BJ8 with 
123 Ignition fitted.
Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
1964 BJ8 29432

Mark Goodman schreef:
> I have had the Petronix system on my BJ8 for over a year now and am very
> happy with it.  One thing that has not been mentioned concerning it versus
> the standard points is that it compensates for distributor shaft "wobble".
> If the shaft has a wobble with the points, it effects the points opening
> distance (gap) and therefore, the optimum performance of the engine.  Since
> the Petronix System uses a magnetic field to turn on a hall effect sensor,
> the wobble has no effect on the operation of the engine.  I carry the set of
> points and the condenser that I took off as an emergency, but I can see no
> reason why I will never go back to them.  The Petronix System is something
> that you install and then forget about.  If you find that your engine will
> not start or performs badly, you can eliminate the condenser and points as a
> thing to look at.  With the past experiences I have had due to the rotor
> shorting to the distributor shaft, I carry three TESTED spares.  Thank you
> Petronix for supplying a good trouble free ignition system.  
>
>  
>
> Mark Goodman
>
> 66BJ8 35503