[Healeys] coils

[Ken]

I recently tried a Pertonix coil. It melted my ignition wire back to the switch! I put the old gold Lucas sport coil back on. Never any problems. Ken Freese 65 BJ8Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Michael Oritt <michael.oritt at gmail.com> Date: 9/9/25  1:25 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: gradea1 at charter.net Cc: Richard Antal <rantal243 at yahoo.com>, Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> Subject: Re: [Healeys] coils I have been running a Mallory Unilite distributor and an MSD Blaster coil with power routed to the coil through a 1.5 ohm ceramic resistor in order to lower current and protect the ignition module.At one time I wired a bypass around the resistor to deliver full current for starting as Mallory suggests but I found that the car starts fine with the reduced current so eliminated the bypass wire.Best--Michael OrittOn Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM Hank Leach via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:I believe the ballast resistor was a unit which helped to keep a traditional set of points from burning/sparking.  The Jensen-Healey uses such an arrangement.  However, due to the inaccessibility of the distributor (under the manifold) I converted to Pertronix years ago. Then one day the car would not start. I mapped out the ballast resistor using a paper clip and was on my way. Hank-------------------- From: "Engl via Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net> Reply-To: "Engl" <engl at accesscomm.ca> To: "Richard Antal" <rantal243 at yahoo.com> Cc: "Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net> Sent: September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM PDT Subject: Re: [Healeys] coils Rich
 
I have petronix with the non-ballast Lucas Sportcoil (‘65 BJ8).  I think the ballast coil is used only for cars with a ballast resistor in the ignition circuit (like the ‘72 Jaguar XJ6 I had). 
 
No experience with the Petronix coil. 

Bob England

On Sep 8, 2025, at 2:28 PM, Richard Antal via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:




'Greetings all,
    My BJ8 has. a Pertronix ignition. Should it have a ballested or non-ballested lucas sport coil? I note the Moss catalogue has a Pertronix coil; does anyone have experience with this coil and is it a better choice than the Lucas coil? Thanks to all responders.
rich antal

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