On 02/28/16 14:49, John Grady wrote: > Hi Paul, snip > Have been thinking about driving the orange box with points, for any > 12v 300 . I am sure I can design something but have never been able > to get an electrical print of what is inside orange box , and they > pot it in tar. Iterating it without print just not smart. ( can do > that too) With that box, electronics inside set the very high dwell, > it recloses circuit to charge the coil immediately after a spark. > "Dwell" goes way up. .Good for 7-8000 RPM with stock coil. The right > circuit, in an adaption done right, would only see the first > opening=spark, ignore bounce etc. Then, take out one set, other set > would last forever with such low current .( no need for two, and > fussies). snip > Also related many new capacitors in new kits are Chinese junk..they > go intermittently open inside. If it has an array of stamped lines > like dents in the flat end away from wire, that is the electrical > connection, (!!) made by denting it in. Aluminum oxidizes inside, > =intermittent connection. Car runs bad then good on and off. Those > are the junk ones. Test your old one it is a better thing. High ohms > on analog meter it should jump up for a second than go back to > infinity. Short to test again . Spark energy drops way down with bad > cap. This is why I still have an analog multimeter in my test instruments arsenal. Old school testing suggests analog meters testing allows one to follow the curve during capacitor testing. -- -- Paul Holmgren If you could sum up all you felt about life and crystallize it in one master insight, you would have said it all, and you would be dead - Fritz Leiber - ------------------------------------ Posted by: paul <paulholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------------ To send a message to this group, send an email to: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or go to https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/all/manage/edit For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/search.htm#querylang ------------------------------------ Yahoo Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: Chrysler300-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Chrysler300-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo Groups is subject to: https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/