Re: wiring question

[Angus Holliday <trstag@domain.elided>]

At 10:50 AM 3/25/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I was looking at the wiring diagram for the Stag.  Going from the
>starter motor to the coil is a wire color coded as WO.  What color is
>WO?  
I believe it to be white with orange trace.

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>The coil according to the manual is meant to be 6 volts.  Have
>recommendations been made to make it a 12 volt unit instead?
The coil is supposed to be 6 volts.  The system is equiped with ballast
resistor.  When the car is cranking
the ballast resistor is bypassed.  This supplies 12 volts to a 6 volt coil.
The purpose of this is 2 fold:
1) it provides a hotter spark when most needed , for starting 2) it
compensates for a possible lower
than normal voltage due to cranking.  If the coil were constantly run at 12
volts it would burn out.
        After the car starts the power is run through the ballast resistor
which drops the voltage to 6 volts.
If a 12 volt coil were used starting would be impaired. And if the ballast
were retained running spark
would also be degraded.  I don't see the purpose of wanting to run a 12 volt
coil.perhaps you cna explain?



>Another question regarding wiring, is there a place that sells color
>code wire, other than buying a wiring loom and cutting it up?
You might try Rhode Island Wiring.

Walter Holliday
Stag Specialists
520 792 0294
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