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If you're swapping points to an HEI distributor to lower maintenance requirements, you’re good to go, but will you be able to feel a difference if you do?

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) provides high temporal resolution and photon sensitivity, which are essential for long-range 3-D imaging. Despite important progress, LiDAR has yet to ...

A basic guide on how to connect an ignition switch to cars and other vehicles. We will examine what wires that go to the switch and how to connect them.

And yet the confusion over them never ends. Ballast resistor and ignition relay. Rob Siegel The simplest bypass method is to have the full current while cranking supplied directly to the coil’s “+” ...

In their book, titled “Ignition: A Guide to Building High-Performing Teams,” the authors provide insights into how to solve problems commonly faced by teams in today’s complex, fast-paced ...

Although it’s not imperative, we replaced the coil on this negative-earth set-up with the higher-output Mega Spark 3 recommended by Lumenition, which requires a ballast resistor to be fitted. Remove ...

The Pertronix documentation explicitly states that the total resistance of the coil plus the ballast resistor must be at least 3 ohms. If it’s less, the ignition will draw more current than the ...

And the ignition wasn't operating at full power because the MSD standalone breakerless distributor was still receiving current through the original 1966 ballast-resistor wire.