CorvAircraft> Ignition failure

[Dave Morris "BigD"]

I doubt it was the condenser.  They (also known as capacitors) are 
devices for storing an electrical charge and should have near 
infinite resistance at DC.  However, as soon as you apply an ohmmeter 
to the leads, you have just started charging the condenser, and your 
ohmmeter will tell you all kinds of weird things, usually producing a 
constantly changing reading.  Then try to compare it with a second 
condenser, and it will also start producing an unintelligible 
reading.  If you switch your meter to Volts and hook up the leads 
again, I bet you suddenly start reading voltage coming out of the condenser.

The short story is, you can't tell anything about a condenser by 
using an ohmmeter, unless you get a dead short reading, and even 
then, you've gotta suspect the device may be carrying a charge that 
is giving you a false reading.

Dave Morris

At 09:59 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
>
>  Who had a ignition failure?any details? Thanks Dan
> >
> > simpkinsxx <simpkinsxx at earthlink.net> wrote:  With the events of
> > recent ignition failures there is one facet that has not been
> >
>         I suspect he is talking about me. I have been completely honest
>and forthcoming with every thing that I have found from my incident. The
>summary is 1 condenser replaced that did not show the same resistance as
>a new one. Timing fine tuned. Points replaced. Carb needle adjusted. And
>now a new battery
>No smoking gun anywhere to be found. I'm the one that is least happy
>about that.
>Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa.
>joe.kr2s.builder at juno.com
>
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