<VV> Fw: Corvair stalling problem

[Bryan Blackwell]

My plan was to basically duplicate an installation with a discrete resistor and tap into the harness ahead of the resistor wire and run that connection to the Pertronix only.  The existing wire would still feed the coil.  So, 12 volts to the Pertronix, but only 8 to the coil, on the switch.

--Bryan

On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:

> If you decide to connect the Pertronix to a 12 Volt feed in the  harness, 
> perhaps separately from the feed to the coil - which is okay to do - be  sure 
> you are connecting to a 12 volt source which is switched with the ignition. 
> If you gave it a straight 12 volts all the time, and supplied the coil 
> with a  switched voltage, the car would start and stop with the key, because 
> the coil  voltage would be turned off, but the Pertronix unit might still be 
> receiving the  12 Volts all the time. I don't think that would be a good 
> thing for longevity.  You can feed both the coil and the Pertronix a 12 Volt 
> ignition key  switched voltage, depending on whether the coil was designed for 
> a 12 volt  feed.