Percival P. Cassidy posted for all of us...

I may not have read all messages.

Don't know what you mean by "ballast resistor," but I've never had
anything by that name replaced in our '02 Chrysler 300M or in the '96
Dodge Stratus before that.

Perce


It was used in the coil circuit to reduce voltage to 9 volts while running
to give longer life to the points. Bypassed while starting so full voltage
would go to the points.

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Tekkie

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:18:35 -0400, Tekkie®
wrote:

Percival P. Cassidy posted for all of us...

I may not have read all messages.

Don't know what you mean by "ballast resistor," but I've never had
anything by that name replaced in our '02 Chrysler 300M or in the '96
Dodge Stratus before that.

Perce


It was used in the coil circuit to reduce voltage to 9 volts while running
to give longer life to the points. Bypassed while starting so full voltage
would go to the points.
more like 7.5 actually, but you got the principal right.

posted for all of us...

I may not have read all messages.





It was used in the coil circuit to reduce voltage to 9 volts while running
to give longer life to the points. Bypassed while starting so full voltage
would go to the points.
more like 7.5 actually, but you got the principal right.

yeah, long time ago... I had a 66 Dart gave it away at 200k miles and the
new owner crashed it a year later.

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Tekkie