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On 24 Jun 2004 at 20:22, Mark Healey wrote: > I metered the wires and as far as I can tell without a megger they are > wide open. I guess I'll have to get new wires. Now, why 1500 ohms. > If they are wires shouldn't they be 0? There is a 1000 Ohm resistor built into the bakelite SP connector. The wires, as you say, are just wires. The SP connectors just screw onto the ends of the wires; they can be unscrewed and replaced. I have replacement wiresets, wire, and parts if you need them. > The nature of the failure of some of these components confuses me as > well. The coil is really just a transformer. Right? How does it > degrade. I figure that the windings would be OK or not. You're right, they don't degrade. They CAN fail if they get a short between windings or if a winding breaks. Such failures can certainly be intermittent. > The same with the rotor resistor. Mine was about 40K but not open. There's a resistor in there. It should be 5000 Ohms. You may want to check your Ohmmeter against a known resistance to make sure that the Ohmeter is correct. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org