Electronic ignition wiring question
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Electronic ignition wiring question
292 Yblock converted 6V to 12V.
Wiring is a mess and tough to trace which I will address in the near future, but for now I wanted to install the pertronix ignitor and have a couple questions.
Currently there are two wires on the positive side of the coil one comes from a
voltage reducer (I assume from ignition) the other not sure. There is one ground wire from distributor to neg side of coil. The new ignition has a red and black wire (red to + and black to - on coil per directions)
Should I end up with 3 wires connected to + side of coil.
Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Jason
Wiring is a mess and tough to trace which I will address in the near future, but for now I wanted to install the pertronix ignitor and have a couple questions.
Currently there are two wires on the positive side of the coil one comes from a
voltage reducer (I assume from ignition) the other not sure. There is one ground wire from distributor to neg side of coil. The new ignition has a red and black wire (red to + and black to - on coil per directions)
Should I end up with 3 wires connected to + side of coil.
Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Jason
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Likely the wires are:
-- wire coming from ballast resistor is the "run" power feed from the ignition switch
-- the other wire may be coming from the "I" terminal on a 4-terminal starter solenoid. It bypasses the ballast during cranking to give a hotter spark for quicker starting. If you have a 3-terminal solenoid, then it could be for a tach or something else.
I believe with Pertronix you don't use a ballast or the bypass feed, but you should have gotten instructions with the system, or can find them on the internet.
-- wire coming from ballast resistor is the "run" power feed from the ignition switch
-- the other wire may be coming from the "I" terminal on a 4-terminal starter solenoid. It bypasses the ballast during cranking to give a hotter spark for quicker starting. If you have a 3-terminal solenoid, then it could be for a tach or something else.
I believe with Pertronix you don't use a ballast or the bypass feed, but you should have gotten instructions with the system, or can find them on the internet.
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Suggest that you use the Pertronix Flamethrower coil. Then you will need no ballast resistor. You will be much more satisfied with the results. Also I assume that you now have a negative ground?
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2X Pete! I'm using a Ignitor and Flamethrower III. Could call on the ground change too. Sometimes we (56ers) take these things for granted but the 53-55 folks are not negative ground from the factory.
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