[ihc] Making excuses for myself

[John Hofstetter <hofs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/22/04 5:36 PM, Dan Nees at cookiedan@domain.elided wrote:

> George,
> The S terminal, as I recall, is only hot during the crank stage. That is
> it is dead after the key turns back to run. That is why the points systems
> used the 2 wires, one through the ballast resistor and the other direct
> since the 12 volt start drops out after you are running.
> 
> Dan Nees

It just occurred to me as I was reading Dan's post that the reason I was
having so much trouble with George's problem was that I never had it. Since
78, I've owned electronic ignition Scouts and the one wire to the coil was
full voltage, and always hot on start and run.

John Hofstetter