[AT] AT Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 - Coil grounding

[Francis Robinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Britton" <c.britton at worldnet.att.net>


> I'm pretty sure the original poster was talking about a seperate ground
> terminal on the plastic, or insulated metal case of the coil to chassie
> ground...  At least that's how I and many others have interpreted it any
> way...
>
> Soundguy
>


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    No... He wasn't... Below is the "ENTIRE" original question that John W. 
innocently asked. He is now probably hiding in a foxhole peeping over the 
edge to see if it is safe to come out...   ;-)

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>Does the case of a coil have to be grounded to the engine to work
right?     John W.


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    A pretty simple question wasn't it... Absolutely nothing about plastic 
coils... Absolutely nothing about point ignitions... None of the crap that 
many here read into it and formed into the image they built in their minds. 
Ron (Walt), popped out an absolute "no" answer and Larry very correctly 
simply indicated that in some setups a ground "could" be required. There was 
nothing in Larry's answer (or the original question) that called for all of 
the imaginary specifications of an exact circumstance or exact ignition 
system that came out of left field. All of the interpretations that followed 
including yours came from the imaginations of the various posters...   ;-) 
We all (me too) form these pictures in our mind as we read (a picture is 
worth a thousand words) which are usually related to something in our own 
past. Sometimes we form an inaccurate picture (me too). It reminds me of a 
child's game we used to play called "telephone". A bunch of kids sat in a 
circle and someone whispered something in the ear of the first one and it 
was passed around the circle. About every fourth kid was to write down what 
he heard but not let anyone else see it. At the end of the game what the 
last person heard was not even close to the starting message. Then you went 
around the ones that wrote it down and the message was usually partially 
different by the first one.   This list works "A LOT" like that sometimes. 
;-)
    Ron (Walt) was so intent on being right that all sense and civility went 
out the door and finally (thanks Steve) he was tossed out the door behind it 
(again).
    BTW, My picture of what John was talking about was him wondering if he 
needed to worry about cleaning the mounting clamp and a band of the coil 
case being sanded clean to assure a good ground to the block... My answer 
would have been "normally not needed"...
    It all could have been so simple...   :-)

    Read twice, answer once...   ;-)   ;-)


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"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA
robinson at svs.net