Ignition woes

67Dart273 said
I don't have time this morning.......have to head to work soon. If you have no ballast, and the ignition/ coil combo is set up to be happy without one, you need to find the voltage drop problem. This will normally cause an OVER charging voltage because the voltage DROP feeds low voltage to the regulator, if you can follow that

Your main points of drop problems are
bulkhead connector.........ammeter and ammeter connections........in RARE cases the welded splice up under the dash in the black ammeter wire........the ignition switch connector......the switch itself.....and back out that path on the "run" (IGN1) wire so one more terminal through the switch connector, and one more on the bulkhead connector

Please read this MAD article which has a very good overview and simplified diagram

Catalog
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Familiar with the MAD material. Too bad you can't get ahold of them to buy parts. Their relay and bulk head kits would be useful.

I'm going to start testing for stray voltage in all of those ares (postive of bat to positive of keyside of ballast, etc.)
I bypass the ballast resistor when using the electronic dizzy and coil and put it in line when using the points dizzy and coil, just so we are on the same page with that.
Thanks for the quick response, impressive. Will post results.