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Well, I’m glad to see I’m not crazy. Frank I looked at these same diagrams very carefully prior to putting anything up in the forums a few days ago and glad to see I may, possibly, not be as dumb as I look.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I could easily have reversed the magneto leads out to the coils when I had a 1/2" spark flowing from both coils, but on principle, refused to do this as a ‘shortcut’ to protect my reputation, should another mechanic ever service a motor I have laid hands on. As the saying goes ‘poop floats.’
I guess the other ‘take home message’ here is that either this system works correctly, or not at all. At least in my limited time working on these (say the last couple of years, maybe 40-50 units), they either throw 1/2-3/4" spark, or they barely show anything at all (say 1/32" of weak output). And that is assuming points, coils, condensers, and charge coil, along with all wires and connections with good grounds are working properly.
Your sherlock holmes detective work also reveals that BLUE/WHITE is in fact #2, not #1 in this instance.
Again to Fleetwin’s and T2Stroke’s advice…"Stay away from the low-tension magnetos!"