[Healeys] Positive to negative gnd---Pertronix question

[John Sims]

Pertronix units are polarity sensitive.

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ

www.healey6.com

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Alan Seigrist
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 10:31 PM
To: Tom Felts
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Positive to negative gnd---Pertronix question

I am pretty sure you have to change over the ignitor unit... it is wired
differently.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net> wrote:

> OK---thinking strongly of converting my late BJ8 to negative earth.  I 
> know the steps-------but-------not sure about the Pertronix.  I have 
> been using Pertronix under positive ground conditions for a long time.
>
> When I convert to neg gnd, must I change Pertronix to a neg gnd one, 
> or is it OK to continue to use the one in the car now that was 
> operating under pos gnd conditions?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> tom
> ____
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