Reply To: Testing coils, per1938 Bendix Scintilla procedure

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JOSEPH BRINCAT wrote:

I would think that by 1938 it would be a standard Ford 6 V coil, not the model T buzz coil.  Looks like what is going on here is using the Ford coil primary voltage spike to juice the Bendix coil. Normaly one would just use low voltage  ( 6 maybe 12 V) to test a coil, but the voltage from the shorted Ford coil will be considerably higher, like a couple hundred volts… ( I think ?)  We need Jeff R to chime in on this.

Joe B

Joe, if one used a regular 6 volt battery, and omitted the
extra coil, or Ford buzz box, one would have to operate
the points manually to get a spark perhaps????

Maybe using the Ford T coil with the vibrating points
is why the diagram shows it working with the points
isolated??

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