<VV> Secondary voltage at coils.(Was Bad Corvair)

[FrankCB at aol.com]

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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