OK, I must be missing something simple

Posted by Tim Holloway on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 7:42PM :

Getting the Poly set up to start on a stand. The battery cables are connected and I have a remote starter button for cranking. All that is fine. I ran a wire from the pos terminal of the battery to one side of an on-off switch. The other side of the switch to one side of a ballast resistor. Other side of ballast resistor to the positive post on the coil. Negative side of coil to distributor.
Coil, wires, cap, rotor, condensor and plugs are all new. I get power to the points but nothing coming out of the HT coil wire. We are not talking rocket science here, I am flummoxed!
Thanks,
Tim

Follow Ups:

• What kind of stand you got? - chriscase@sbcglobal.com 10:13PM 01/18/2006
  • Re: What kind of stand you got? - Tim Holloway 10:27AM 01/19/2006
• Re: OK, I must be missing something simple - Kaegi 7:50PM 01/18/2006
  • Re: OK, I must be missing something simple - Tim Holloway 9:17PM 01/18/2006
    • Test light should go out when points close. nm - chriscase@sbcglobal.com 10:09PM 01/18/2006
    • Re: OK, I must be missing something simple - Will (in IL now) 10:05PM 01/18/2006
      • Re: OK, I must be missing something simple - Tom Petroff 7:48AM 01/19/2006

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