[Healeys] Lucas Sports Coil

[i erbs]

Are thoes metric or standard ohms :)

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
typos and artifacts are the fault of my phone

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019, 7:30 AM Michael Salter <michael.salter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Regarding the coil resistance
> I pulled out my Fluke meter and got exactly the same results....  these
> are B12 coils used on the early BN1 and many other cars including the
> Jaguar XK120.
> [image: image.png]
>
>
> Turns out that primary resistance between 4.2 and 4.6 is actually correct
> for these, unlike the later styles.
>
> You learn something every day..
>
> M
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM Michael Salter <michael.salter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well that's really weird because the one on my car reads 4.6 and works
>> fine ... has for ages ... I think I might have to check my ohmmeter 😳
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019, 8:41 AM josef-eckert at t-online.de, <
>> josef-eckert at t-online.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Primary resistance of 2.7 to 3.3 Ohms is right. It doesn´t matter if its
>>> an ordinary or a so called Sports Coil. When its 4.5 to 5.5 Ohms the coil
>>> is gone. You can bin it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Josef Eckert
>>>
>>> GERMANY
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original-Nachricht-----
>>>
>>> Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Lucas Sports Coil
>>>
>>> Datum: 2019-04-28T14:35:19+0200
>>>
>>> Von: "Michael Salter" <michael.salter at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> An: "Michael MacLean" <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2.8 seems low to me Michael. I have some original early 100 coils that
>>> I'm just cleaning up to put on Ebay and they show readings of around 4.5 -
>>> 5.5.
>>> Of course that might be a difference between regular and sport coils.
>>>
>>> M
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 5:57 PM Michael MacLean, <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a period Lucas Sports Coil type SA-12 for my BN2.  I have not
>>>> tried it yet.  Can anyone give me the specs on it?  I get a reading on my
>>>> VOM of 2.8 ohms between the two outer connections and 9,400 ohms for the
>>>> center to one outer connection.  Is this coil weak or is this correct?
>>>> Mike MacLean
>>>> _
>>>
>>> 
>>>
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