Re: How are ignition coils wired?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Greg,

It goes to the (+) terminal which is connected to the battery (+).  Since
the points "opening" fires the coil, if they hooked it to the (-) terminal
it would arc accross the open points.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 12:23 PM 11/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>How are car ignition coils wired internally? I'm
>talking about the old-style, 3-terminal,
>cylinder-shaped coil with a (+) and (-) terminal and a
>HV tower in the middle. One HV lead goes to the HV
>tower. The other HV lead goes to which 12V terminal?
>(+) or (-)?
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
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