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Your coil was wired backwards. If you notice both wires leading to your coil are black and easily mixed up. Your coil will still work while wired like that but will fail prematurely. If you try wireing up an electronic ignition like this, bamm you've got nothing but smoke and it will instantly ruin it. Try to see if they will take it back and replace it, but since it is electrical, there is a chance that they will not. Before hooking anything else up, take a meter and test to make sure it is wired correctly!!! Kevin Howlett 73 square Cullman, Alabama I recently bought the compufire ignition points replacement module for my 66 Fastback running a 009 dist. figuring I could benefit from some technological simplicity. I installed them today correctly, from what I could tell, followed the instructions EXACTLY, put the red wire on the positive side of my coil, and the black wire on the negative side, screwed the metal module part in the hole where the old points went then put the round compufire rotor in last. Also took out the condenser. Put the cap back on and then went to start the engine. Nothing. Just the starter whirling. Went back to the engine and the distributor was smoking! Took off the cap, and the black wire coming from the metal module was melted and hot! What did I do wrong? Could it be a defect in the Compufire set I bought? If so, I hope I can get a new one. Any help is appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe