<VV> Secondary voltage at coils.(Was Bad Corvair)
FrankCB at aol.com
FrankCB at aol.com
Thu Oct 18 22:30:42 EDT 2012
Daniel,
Make sure you have at least 12 volts (13 to 14 volts is better) at the
power lead to the coil. To to this it's necessary to bypass the
resistance wire going to the coil which is there to reduce the wear on the ignition
points in the distributor. Since with the Petronixs you no longer have
points, simply bypass the resistance wire to get the full battery voltage to
the coil. This step should make a significant improvement in the voltage to
the sparkplugs.
Frank Burkhard
Boonton, NJ
In a message dated 10/18/2012 10:05:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dmonasterio at hotmail.com writes:
This topic lead me to coils secondary voltage using Pertronix.
I've found that, with Pertronix II and it's matching Flame Thrower coil
can't get more than 8 KV at idle but, it increases at high rpm, to more than
20 KV.
With Pertronix I and std. coil, get about 10 KV at idle and about 15 KV at
more than 2,000 rpm. Didn't checked with points.
On simple words, Pertronix I makes passing exhaust emissions tests (less
HC at idle) better than with Pertronix II but, I'm still concerned, on both
cases, about
the different voltages between idle and high rpm as, I supposed that on
this electronic devices the coil output voltage shouldn't be affected by
speed (excepting 0 rpm).
Daniel Monasterio
Just trying to learn a bit more
> From: FrankCB at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:29:44 -0400
> To: BobHelt at aol.com; vairologist at cox.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Bad Corvair
>
> Bob,
> Maybe the "electricity" in this car is simply old like Smitty and
> required "revving up" to get going.<GGG>
> Frank Burkhard
> Boonton, NJ
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