Anyone Know the appropriate voltage to the Ignition Coil??

[Pbdy Jr]

I have a regulator wire traveling to the choke, and the other wire travelling to the starter slave solenoid. With the Ignition turned on, i get twelve volts through these wires. If i crank the motor, it drops to 9 volts. However, these readings are with the power unhooked from the coil. When i hook these wires back up to the coil, they read just over 5 volts. these wires heat up pretty quickly and I have no spark coming from the coil.. I am going to replace the coil, but I want to make sure this voltage is behaving as it is supposed to.

 

[gm280]

Re: Anyone Know the appropriate voltage to the Ignition Coil??

Let's back up here just a little. For starters, what type OB are you working on? What manufacture, model, HP etc. is your engine? If you are having any wores gettinghot or heating up. you have something mis-wired. So let's see what you are working on. And even take some more pictures and post with the additional info so we can better understand what you're doing... Also welcome to iboats...

:welcome:

 

[Texasmark]

Re: Anyone Know the appropriate voltage to the Ignition Coil??

+1 on that. You could have two different problems or one is causing the other.

Mark