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Re: coil getting to hot!!!
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Posted by dick on December 02, 2000 at 08:12:16 from (199.239.12.58):
In Reply to: coil getting to hot!!! posted by ranparr on December 02, 2000 at 03:56:37:
Couple of things you might check/try: First, check the voltage between the resistor and your coil to see if the resistor is doing the job. You can do this both with the tractor running and stopped. When stopped, you should see the full battery voltage between the coil and resistor when the points are open, and about half when the points are closed. If you see half the voltage with the points open, you've probably got a bad condenser, although a short somewhere in the distributor is also possible. When the tractor is running, you should see a fluctuating voltage alternating around maybe 8 volts between the coil and resistor. Since half the voltage drop is supposed to take place across the resistor, it should be as hot as the coil, or something is probably wrong with it. If you're more into the plug-in-new-parts-until-it-works school, try a new condenser or two - these things don't seem to be as reliable as they once were, and not many people claim to know how to check them, so trying more than one isn't a bad idea. They do have the advantage of being relatively cheap. Hope this helps, and good luck. My bet is you've got a bad condenser from your description.
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