Ron Thompson wrote:

I was working on my father-in-law's lawnmower. I replaced the points
and didn't want to do it every year.

Replace the condenser. A bad condenser will either stop the engine dead
or just get it to eat points.

The zener and SCR sounds like it may be the ticket.

See my post elsewhere in this thread. That doesn't work.

Ted
Yes, I should have said points and condenser. The end of the condenser
is the lower contact of the points set.


Ron Thompson
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