Ballast Resister Needed?
First a follow up from above. Yes I forgot I have a coil that came with this set up. It looks like its an HEI coil in a fancy aluminum casing. See below. No information on this coil or in the box!
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Here are some pics of the other parts of this ignition system. I forgot I did a similar post many months back that I found when I did a search just now.
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Below is the schematic on the back of the ignition box
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If you look below the distributor has 2 wires coming from it (both go to pickup) that I assume will go to the connector from the box on the side by itself. The question I have is which wire will go to which side of the connector. Yes there is a connector that came with it but I have to get the wires in the correct side of that connector.
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In that post a member suggested to tie both the hot wires from the ignition switch to the resistor together but not to run directly to the new ignition box but to use a relay so that the new ignition box would not have power when the switch is turned off. Seems to make sense.
When I look at my factory schematic I see that on one side of the resistor it has power from the run ignition and that also went to the + coil side. The opposite side of the resistor had power from the crank ignition and went on from resistor terminal to the body of the alt. I just went out to the shed and verified this Drk blue wire from resistor to Alt. This leads me to ask 2 questions. First if I eliminate the resistor do I still need the wire to the alt. body that came from the resistor? 2nd question is if this wire is hot during crank how does it become a ground when I let off crank of switch. The place this wire goes on alt says GRD.
Im confused!
Looking forward to finding more out as I go forward with this.
Thanks
Rod