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  • Re: what happens when the distributor condenser fails?

    From phil@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 9 23:15:03 2022
    If you're condenser is bad will it stop the spark going to the spark plug

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  • From Xeno@21:1/5 to phil on Wed Aug 10 12:35:26 2022
    On 10/8/2022 9:15 am, phil wrote:
    If you're condenser is bad will it stop the spark going to the spark plug

    Generally the bad condenser will cause the contact points to burn
    *unless* the condenser itself develops an internal short. Then it will
    ground the primary current from the coil *permanently* hence no
    interruption of the coil primary current flow resulting in no high
    voltage (spark) generation in the secondary circuit.

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