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muskox37 · 12-03-2012, 03:53 PM

My partner and I have a hand cranked coil tester and we have agreed to set up about a dozen coils for a mutual friend. To that end we have been changing the capacitors and setting the points.

Some of these coils are the brass topped ones from earlier cars and have a GE point arrangement on them. Our friend would like to keep these particular points despite their age and condition.

Our current problem is that we can get the current set up at about 1.3 amps but we will have double sparking [usually on two or three points of the sixteen point ring].

We then try to eliminate the double sparking. Then the current ends up being high. We then go to reduce the current . . . and you know the rest.

Does anybody know of a systematic approach to the setting of the points that will reduce or eliminate this setting and resetting?

12-03-2012, 03:53 PM	#1
muskox37 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Parksville,, Canada Posts: 9	coil setting problems My partner and I have a hand cranked coil tester and we have agreed to set up about a dozen coils for a mutual friend. To that end we have been changing the capacitors and setting the points. Some of these coils are the brass topped ones from earlier cars and have a GE point arrangement on them. Our friend would like to keep these particular points despite their age and condition. Our current problem is that we can get the current set up at about 1.3 amps but we will have double sparking [usually on two or three points of the sixteen point ring]. We then try to eliminate the double sparking. Then the current ends up being high. We then go to reduce the current . . . and you know the rest. Does anybody know of a systematic approach to the setting of the points that will reduce or eliminate this setting and resetting?