Re: Pertronix and ballast resistor

[Dave Casey <dcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The red ignitor wire goes straight to the positive side of the coil. The 
black goes straight to the negative coil terminal. The ballast resistor goes 
between the IGN1 terminal of your ignition switch and the positive side of 
the coil. The blue voltage regulator wire also goes to the IGN1 terminal. 
The IGN2 terminal goes to the positive side of the coil.

Your cranking difficulty is probably too much timing. Retard it a few 
degrees and see if it starts easier.

Dave Casey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Brooks" <tony.brooks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:54 PM
Subject: Pertronix and ballast resistor


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I need a little help from those of you who have installed the Pertronix
Ignitor kit. I recently installed the pertronix kit, flamethrower coil,
plug wires and plugs in my 65 poly 318. I intially bypassed the ballast
resistor and connected the red Ignitor wire directly to the positive
side of the coil since the Flamethrower coil has internal resistance.
This seemed to work fine except the car didn't start as easily as it did
with the points. It would always start, but it seemed like the starter
was really struggling to turn the motor over. Could this be a voltage
problem?

Since the Pertonix instructions suggest using a ballast resistor if one
already exists, I decided to move the red Ignitor wire to the ignition
side of the ballast resistor to see if this improved anything. The
ignition side is the driver's side of the ballast resistor right? When I
tried starting the car, I saw smoke coming from the negative battery
terminal/cable and immediately stopped.

After looking at the wiring diagram for my Coronet, I'm a little
confused. There's IGN1 and IGN2. It looks like IGN2 bypasses the ballast
resistor for cranking, and IGN1 powers the regulator and coil through
the ballast resistor. The only option I haven't tried is connecting the
red Ignitor wire directly to the ignition wire.Any help from you that
have successfully installed this kit is greatly appreciated and sorry
for the long post.

Thanks
Tony

65 Coronet 440

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