wps

Coil getting hot, Any suggestions, blown one up already!!!

Basically got a ignition switched live feed to one side of the coil the
neutral switched across the points.
The engine dose run but the coil still gets very hot. Not having a diagram,
should there be a ballast resistor in series with the live feed?

Can any one point me in the right direction i.e web page circuit diagram.

regards

Andy

Adrian Ford

"wps" <th012h@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Coil getting hot, Any suggestions, blown one up already!!!
>
> Basically got a ignition switched live feed to one side of the coil the
> neutral switched across the points.
> The engine dose run but the coil still gets very hot. Not having a
diagram,
> should there be a ballast resistor in series with the live feed?
>
> Can any one point me in the right direction i.e web page circuit diagram.
>
> regards
>
> Andy
>
>

Andy,
Has this coil been ok before or have you just replaced it.
If you have just replaced it is it the right low voltage coil.
I once put a high voltage coil in mine and it got red hot and burnt out the
points..

Adrian Ford

beamendsltd

In message <0ooXd.19462$y25.9718@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
"wps" <th012h@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Coil getting hot, Any suggestions, blown one up already!!!
>
> Basically got a ignition switched live feed to one side of the coil the
> neutral switched across the points.
> The engine dose run but the coil still gets very hot. Not having a diagram,
> should there be a ballast resistor in series with the live feed?
>
> Can any one point me in the right direction i.e web page circuit diagram.
>
> regards
>
> Andy
>
>

Are we talking Range Rover? If so, then yes in most cases
there should be a ballast resistor in the circuit. If it's not
there you will get exactly the symptoms you describe. I don't
know about on-line, but the Haynes book gives sufficient info.

Richard

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Austin Shackles

On or around Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:01:02 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
<beamendsltd@btconnect.com> enlightened us thusly:

>Are we talking Range Rover? If so, then yes in most cases
>there should be a ballast resistor in the circuit. If it's not
>there you will get exactly the symptoms you describe. I don't
>know about on-line, but the Haynes book gives sufficient info.

same effects with one or other combination of "wrong" coil - I *think* it
was using an "electronic" coil with a points dizzy. 'tother way round, it
just doesn't run properly.

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Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by;
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Richard Brookman

So Austin Shackles was, like

> On or around Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:01:02 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
> <beamendsltd@btconnect.com> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> Are we talking Range Rover? If so, then yes in most cases
>> there should be a ballast resistor in the circuit. If it's not
>> there you will get exactly the symptoms you describe. I don't
>> know about on-line, but the Haynes book gives sufficient info.
>
> same effects with one or other combination of "wrong" coil - I
> *think* it was using an "electronic" coil with a points dizzy.
> 'tother way round, it just doesn't run properly.

No coil expert (least, not the automotive kind), but I mistakenly fitted a
ballast-type coil to the S2a and it overheated enough to cause a misfire.
Replaced with original and it ran fine. So that combination certainly
doesn't work.

--

Rich

Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous

Austin Shackles

On or around Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:57:13 -0000, "Richard Brookman"
<newsboy@nowhere.com> enlightened us thusly:

>So Austin Shackles was, like
>
>> On or around Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:01:02 +0000 (UTC), beamendsltd
>> <beamendsltd@btconnect.com> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>>> Are we talking Range Rover? If so, then yes in most cases
>>> there should be a ballast resistor in the circuit. If it's not
>>> there you will get exactly the symptoms you describe. I don't
>>> know about on-line, but the Haynes book gives sufficient info.
>>
>> same effects with one or other combination of "wrong" coil - I
>> *think* it was using an "electronic" coil with a points dizzy.
>> 'tother way round, it just doesn't run properly.
>
>No coil expert (least, not the automotive kind), but I mistakenly fitted a
>ballast-type coil to the S2a and it overheated enough to cause a misfire.
>Replaced with original and it ran fine. So that combination certainly
>doesn't work.

aye, summat like that happened to mine using the electronic coil with points
dizzy. got very hot and conked out.

tother way round causes iffy sparks and dodgy running.

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a great lie than to a small one" Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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