<VV> Yet another Pertronix Ignitor question

[Larry Forman]

I only run Pertronix, Flamethrowers, Seth's wires and Bosch 7502s aka W8ACs.  I also read in the Pertronix literature, AS I RECALL!, that you can wire it directly across the coil, and all mine are wired up that way.  I agree that it might be better to wire it up the other way, as Bob Helt explained, but that is certainly a less convenient to wire configuration.  Why did I do that, when I realize that it is better to wire it differently, as well as: floss daily, brush for at least two minutes after every meal, exercise 30 minutes/day, pray, meditate, contribute to my favorite charity, ensure I pay all my income taxes, etc, etc.  The list goes on and on.  Sometimes there is just not enough time in the day to do everything that I "should" do.  So I pick and chose what works for me.  You now know where Ignitors fall.  I MIGHT rewire them some day, maybe.

For now, I have not seen failures or intermittents or issues on maybe 5 or 6 of these installations.  Will you see any difference or failures with either configuration?  I'll take bets on that one.  BTW, have you flossed today??   LOL.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Elliott" <Corvair@fnader.com>

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:28:01 -0400
To: "pkw@peachgrove.com" <pkw@peachgrove.com>,"virtualvairs@corvair.org" <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Subject: Re: <VV> Yet another Pertronix Ignitor question

> The author is correct. Though many (included some well-repected members of this forum) have 
> experienced no bad issues when hooking directly to the coil, many of us have (myself included). But 
> then, some people seem to be able to run Bosch Platinums while the rest of us can't.
> 
> To my knowledge, no one has experienced negative issues when using a pure 12V source... and it has 
> been suggested that the rash of Pertronix failures are related to low voltage situations. Except for the 
> very first generation of Ignitors, I've only heard of a couple of failures when the unit was fed a pure 12v.
> 
> Bill Elliott