<VV> help! miss in 63

Frank DuVal corvairduval at cox.net
Sun Jul 19 20:36:08 EDT 2009


Um, Bill, a condenser is two plates of metal separated by an insulator. 
A coil is literally a coil of wire. In the case of an ignition coil, it 
is two coils of wire wound around a common iron core. They are not in 
any sense the same functioning part. The ignition coil should more 
correctly be called an ignition transformer.

Frank DuVal

 Bill Strickland wrote:

>
>The coil, which is just a specially designed condensor, may be 
>exhibiting classic heat related condensor failure symptoms.  An old Rule 
>Of Thumb is that a miss when hot under load is often a high voltage 
>ignition problem.
>
>Bill Strickland
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