Re: Condensers Testing

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quote FrankR:

Another thought: Can I guess that your motor has a Wico mag with the orange shellac coated coils? Short of physical destruction or roaches eating them, those things are extremely reliable. Be glad you have those, if indeed that is what you do have.

Hello Frank,
Thanks for your comments.

Yep, that seems to be what I have. Although mine have a rubber boot covering them.

In testing the coils, I put an ohmmeter first on the primary winding to ground and got good continuity. I then measured the resistance from where the spark plug wires attached to ground; good continuity there as well. I also used another test where I took a D-cell battery and touched it to the primary winding. Doing that, I was able to get a good spark at the plug for each coil. As a result, I assumed the coils were good and moved on to other possibilities. See additional comments below…