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Points smoking on a 702

By Nubombterk, in Wheel Horse Electrical

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Had spark but lost it. When checking the points I found the plastic isolators were melted. Replaced the points and condensor. Set the gap at .020, checked for spark and had nothing. Points started smoking and melting the isolators again, along with the wire casing going back to neg. side of the coil. Any suggestions for a newbie? Thanks Josh

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Save Old Iron    1,571

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Josh, you either have

 

1/ a shorted ignition coil

 

2/ an ignition coil which requires an external resistor - and you do not have a resistor attached

 

3/ you are using a "high performance" coil with a low resistance primary meant only for use in transistor based automotive electronic ignitions

 

any one of the above can fry points due to excessive current draw in the coil primary wiring.

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Replaced the coil and problem solved. Thanks for the advise.

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The smokin rodent chalks up another W !

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