Re: Just Fried a New Coil with my Mercotronic

[RICHARD A. WHITE]

I can’t imagine it frying the coil….You can, and I have seen it, not done it, run a Ford Model T buzz coil on 12 volts…clearly they were made for 6 volts…I am not saying to do that but have seen it done….The short period of time needed to spin up the dial to increase voltage should not have done it…unless you let it stay there for a long period, and even then would that have caused it to go bu-bye???
Not anywhere close to an electrician, but if you only have 7.5 volts input and that coil fried, …it was bad to begin with….Just my shade tree opinion….

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