You can reverse the Nova’s wire leads as Mumbles said also.
I hate to hear you have had such a time.
I have used the Nova’s also I got a pair here in st pete on my 5.5hp 1960 Johnson that I converted some years back before I found out about the Kawasaki Chips. I have noticed that if it has new coils and new plug wires on it which in your picture yours looks like new coils that I have not lost a nova module using new style coils and plug wires. I think it may have to do with the way they make them now possibly less voltage spikes or maybe older coils might have small breaks in some of the coils wiring or if running old spark plug wires you can get arching which might kill a module. I am not saying everyone should to get nova modules because I don’t think their reliable based off other peoples feedback here I am just saying what I have seen on my engines when I am running new coils and plug wires.
I have soldered the lead wires on the Nova chips but you have to have really good soldering skills and you clean the tangs with emory cloth down until you see copper then use a really good electronic flux and just enough heat to melt solder quickly. I do not recommend this for most people the biggest reason is you can wreck the module and will never get spark and you can’t send it back to amazon if you solder it.
I have home made modules in my some of my motors in Tennessee that are from the 50’s and 60s with the old OMC coils still in them and have not lost a module in those motors since building the modules.
I do think that when points are set and timed as they should be they work great normally when I time a set of points on an OMC motor I can spin the flywheel by hand and get spark on the plugs. Here is a video of timing the points for an OMC. A guy here in the club makes the timing tool. I have one I purchased from him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNK2TEeQQv0
As far as condensers go I have a Stevens 75 ignition tester and I of the condensers I have tested if the OMC condensers with red paper caps are in a motor everyone I have tested for breakdown and leakage has not passed. If they have the new black plastic top and are genuine OMC condensers they pass.
I hope that helps,
Joe
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