electronic ignition

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler

However I won't leave home without a spare conventional dizzy. When it comes to electronics there's no such thing as roadside repairs! When these pick ups blow you're stranded unless you have a spare unit. It's happened to me three times - once on my old V12 Jag, and twice on my much newer 302 Ford.

Hi Tony,
My experience of electronic conversions are not failures of the unit or module, but the higher voltage HT destroying the rotor arms or centre carbon area of the distributor cap. Maybe this was the one particular type, do Pertronix kits increase the HT voltage above the normal 15,000 or so volts?