Found this little dwg. on the net for checking coils polarity other than the conventional lead pencil test and the vendors' tester. No specificity for 12 volt neg. vs 6 volt pos. systems.
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I've been thinking about why the coil polarity is important!
A spark is a spark at the plug!
I think I know but the experts hopefully will chime in.
My shade tree experience says it's the gap in the distributor first then at the plug? -
Chicagoland mg club has the best explanation I've ever seen.
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Thanks Tom, wondered if or where the dwg. came from. A few paragraphs down, it says there's no difference in connecting the test leads to read the analogue meter for + or - ground systems ( even assuming the coils are marked + or - but also assuming as taught by theory that electrons flow across the battery from + to -).Last edited by plyfor; 11-24-2017, 09:25 PM.Comment
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With neg. ground (12 volt) , one would think the + meter lead in sketch would be connected to the plug, not the head. The current path through the 12 volt - grnd.. coil would assume to be from + to - across the coil primary..Comment
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Ideally the lead to the plug is negative, no matter which battery post is ground, so the negative meter lead should always go to the plug.
I like to use a high ohm resistor between the meter leads, so I can short out most of the high voltage, rather than sending it through the meter.Comment
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Our 12 volt ( negative ground) coil terminals are marked; so in summary, the ignition switch red wire is the ground leg and goes to the neg.coil terminal. The black wire runs from the + coil terminal to the + j box terminal.
Would assume since the coil is marked that no polarity check would be required.Comment
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some info says the plus is where to check the high voltage, and another says use the minus. I also have seen wiring diagrams showing comman internal connection on both plus and minus. Are different coils wired differently to the + - terminals? Also, I get the same ohm reading from the hi tension tower to either plus or minus. This is on several coils that spark well.
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What do ignition coil testers measure ? I’ve seen some very old ones with a ‘good-bad’ meter on them that also allow the high tension wire to plug into the tester. I’m guessing that these testers measure the high voltage generated ??
I’m considering building a simple test device and thinking that I would simply measure the length of the spark produced.
thanks - Jim02-04-2021, 09:03 AM -
Helped a mate with an electronic Efire crab dizzy today.
Would not go, after a couple of hours we found 2 things wrong.
Firstly the magnet drum had to be pushed right home to work and we could not get a 3 ohm coil to run.
Got it running on a 1.2 ohm coil.
Whether the 3 ohm one is dead or electronics don't like 3 ohms.
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