Got a hic up

[EasTexRIII]

Cleaning & re-crimping the low tension leads fixed mine

 

[phar2slo]

I had this problem early on this year.

Thanks to @sleeves I cleaned and die-electrical greased them and problem gone.
Good luck.

 

[Bedifferent]

I hate that terminology of low tension and high tension. It's old school stuff that I heard when I was a kid...showing my age!

How about...the spark plug wires or high voltage wires or secondary coil lead wire. Then there are the low voltage leads, coil power wires, primary lead wires of the coil or the trigger lead wires to the coil.

And what's with condensor...it's a capacitor. Two conductors separated by an insulator. Yes it stores an electrical charge, but it's really a capacitor. And Yes, I know the rocket doesn't have a capacitor. Lol.

Now I've gone and done it! Just causing trouble...

 

[rash_powder]

I've never really had to work on a points type ignition that had a condensor, but in college I pondered hard over the condensor. Its to take up the counter EMF from the primary coil. When that coil discharges, the secondary coil induce a voltage in the primary and that has to go somewhere; enter the condensor. Thats at least the best a college kid could come up with to explain it.

 

[Bedifferent]

I've never really had to work on a points type ignition that had a condensor, but in college I pondered hard over the condensor. Its to take up the counter EMF from the primary coil. When that coil discharges, the secondary coil induce a voltage in the primary and that has to go somewhere; enter the condensor. Thats at least the best a college kid could come up with to explain it.

It served to reduce arcing at the points and strengthen the primary field.

 

[rash_powder]

It served to reduce arcing at the points and strengthen the primary field.

20 years later I have been educated!! Thank you!!

 

[RocketmanBristol]

Can one of the electrical wizards here tell me if soldering the coil connectors is an option rather than recrimping or would it cause other issues, only asking as I have the low rev hic-up as mentioned earlier in this thread.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

I wouldn't, for fear of overheating the terminal and having it come loose from the coil.

 

[RocketmanBristol]

I wouldn't, for fear of overheating the terminal and having it come loose from the coil.

Sorry Rocket Scientist I think we got crossed wires..............pun intended,what I was trying to ask is it ok to solder the pull off crimp connector rather than the wires directly to the coil.
If the crimp is the weak link why not use a better/ new connector with a soldered joint or will it cause another problem with resistance Oe something?

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Yep, I missed the ball. Soldering a new terminal end on would be fine !