Point Ignition Coil Check OHMS?

powerwagonpaul said

two wire meter...four wire meter..:stop:..geeze youz guyz is slpittin hairs.
im sure if your dealin with solid state circuts it makes a difference if your readin .25 or .30 ohms, but by golly this is an ignition coil:roll: if hes seein 1.8 ohms thats plenty close enough.

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Look, man, just every damn once in awhile, us old bastards know WTF we are talking about. I was "into" electronics at a very early age, spent 6 years in the U.S. Navy as a GCA RADAR electronics tech, and my last few years I worked for Motorola installing E911 radio/ telco gear.

IF YOU HAVE a coil WITH AN INTERMITTENT SHORT between two windings of the PRIMARY, this constitutes a DC CHANGE OF RESISTANCE down into the MILLIOHMS, and this a CHANGE that you CAN NOT READ on ANY current production affordable meter that any of you guys out there OWN

To boil this down into SIMPLE terms, if the COIL reads 1.8 ohms and is GOOD, but then if when it HEATS UP and FAILS due to a short in the primary, IT MIGHT JUST STILL READ 1.8 ohms on your silly little 300 dollar Fluke meter.