<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Sujit,<br><br></div>Coil technology hasn't changed dramatically, but I'd get new one regardless as the insulation may be degraded in a 40 year old coil causing it to perform poorly or fail. They're cheap and you don't want to spend time troubleshooting only to find out the 40 year old coil is dodgy.<br><br></div>I can't argue with your math, but in my experience coils are typically sold as 12V or 6V or "internally ballasted" or not. You want a 12V or "internally ballasted" coil if you're removing the external ballast resistor.<br><br></div>Ben...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Sujit Roy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:triumphstag@gmail.com" target="_blank">triumphstag@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a spare coil dated '73. Has technology changed so much that I<br>
should discard this and when needed buy a modern one?<br>
<br>
There are so many vendors claiming hi tech coils. Is this a load of baloney?<br>
<br>
My Stag has a ballast resistor so for starting a full 12 v is supplied to<br>
the coil on general running 6 volts is used. Am I killing my coil by<br>
spiking it with 12 volts?<br>
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The resistance of the coil is specked at 1.5 ohoms.<br>
<br>
If I remove the ballast resistor and just supply 12 volts all the time,<br>
should I now get a 3 Ohm resistance coil?<br>
<br>
Based on the current and calculations below, this sort of make sense. Am I<br>
right?<br>
<br>
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V=I xR<br>
12 = I x 3 I = 4A<br>
6v = I x 1.5 I =4A<br>
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