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Old 11-06-2003, 09:02 PM
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No, what I mean is taking the ballast resistors out (bypassing them) and putting the coil with 3.2 ohms of resistance means I have a system (box -> coil (3.2) -> box) resistance of 3.2 ohms vs 2 (box -> resistor (0.4?) -> coil (1) -> resistor (0.6?) -> box). that would produce the same spark if the coil is working properly, possibly a stronger spark since it's a newer, "Super blue" coil (The only resistance is the coil itself) but with less wear+tear on the transistor unit (since more resistance = less amps the box has to use to fire the coil - V=IR, V is 12 volts, if R goes up then I, current, goes down - 2 ohms would require 6 amps per spark, 3.2 would require 3.75 amps per spark).
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