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December 13, 2020 at 2:46 pm #225123
frankr
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    Buccaneer, if you did have the points & condenser hooked up, that would explain your wacky Ohms reading. The voltage generated by the magnets passing the coil was being applied to the Ohm meter. As you probably know, resistance readings cannot be done with power applied.