Point Ignition Coil Check OHMS?

powerwagonpaul said

exactly.....agreed...100%......and its still just an ignition coil. all im sayin is that fancy four wire meter that nobody can afford is overkill for checkin a coil. all you need is a good quality multimeter of 50,000 ohm per volt or better. if its good its good. if its bad its bad.

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The only thing you can check with a run of the mill multimeter is whether it has an open you won't be able to check for internal break down of the insulation. Most coil failures a multimeter is pretty much use less for finding internal shorts. I have coil kicking around in the garage that measures in spec with at the low voltages applied when making resistance measurements. It won't run an engine at all. Took it to work and used a corona tester on it and the secondary windings started breaking down at 500 volts.