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Old 12-02-19, 06:20
Malcolm Towrie Malcolm Towrie is offline
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Default Staghound ignition coils and ballast resistors

We have a Staghound on loan. One ignition coil is bad. Probably because the coil has only 2.4 ohms primary resistance and no ballast resistor in series so it was drawing 10 amps from the 24V supply when the points were closed. This causes the coil to run really hot and the points to pit badly. These coils must have originally had a ballast resistor or high internal resistance to reduce coil primary current to 3 or 4 amps. But the manual I have (TM 9-741) makes no reference to a resistor in series with the coil. Can anyone tell me what coils and resistors they are running in their Staghounds?
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Malcolm
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