<VV> Accel Coil

[Smitty Smith]

Smitty says;  I am a little slow to learn some times so it takes me a while to get some things through my skull.  I have finally had it with Accel Super coils.  I have tried to get through to somebody in the company to reason with them but it seems acces is blocked.  Well I can't get to them but I think I can reach about 500 people right here.  When I first built Spike I chose to go with the primative but highly reliable and easy to diagnose points system.  I knew I would need lots of fire to keep the flame going under big boost so I got an Accel Super coil.  About a year later I had a coil primary burn out.  Maybe it's my "Bad" I thought so I checked the circuits and ballast resistor feeding the coil.  I was running a 1.5ohm ballast rather than the 1.4 that came with it.  I was able to get through to a (Quote)Technician(Unquote) that let me know in no uncertain tearms that it was my fault for not using the supplied Resistor.  I figured, what the hay, I
 need to get on the track so I bought another coil.  This scenario was played 3 more times when I was running under normal operation around town.  Each time I took the blame.  I moved the coil off the engine where it was getting quite a bit of vibration and (could be) heat.  I moved it to an upright position in case the coil wire wasn't staying submerged in oil.  I changed balast resistors again droping the primairy input voltage to 6.1 in the run position.  A couple of days ago I was on my way home after about 15 miles of interstate "when the top of the engine should have been nice and cool" and another coil primary failed.  That was number 5 and I will take every opportunity from now on to advertise that Accel Supercoils are Crap.  They are garbage.  Spike is happily running around now with a 40 year old GM coil which I suspect would last forever.  That won't hack it on the track though under heavy boost.  Well' see what we gonna do.