Ignition Coil Testing
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From: Honah Lee
No call out for resistance in service manual . My guess is it very little since it just a coil of copper wire I guess. But it's good to know it should show a little.
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That was never how you really should check it. If Harley listed a value and tolerance, however, would sure be a little easier checking it that way for me.
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The jest of this random back and forth was what downtown got on his bad one. Zero resistance which my guess was it was showing open. Just out of curiosity, I asked him did the new one show resistance. That answer came back as an email and I updated this thread.
That was never how you really should check it. If Harley listed a value and tolerance, however, would sure be a little easier checking it that way for me.
That was never how you really should check it. If Harley listed a value and tolerance, however, would sure be a little easier checking it that way for me.
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From: Honah Lee
Not sure if his meter said 1 or 00.0. I assumed he meant it was broken somewhere in the coil. If so, my meter would have stayed at 1.
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From: New Hampsha
A lot of newer digital meters will show "0L" for an open, or out of range reading.
Without a spec, or at least a couple of examples of known good parts, a resistance measurement is next to useless (unless it's 0 or infinity.)
Without a spec, or at least a couple of examples of known good parts, a resistance measurement is next to useless (unless it's 0 or infinity.)
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