Think I fried my Pertronix

[tolstoy]

Doing some maint on my bus before a trip with the family in a couple of weeks. Somehow during the process a couple of wires came unhooked. Hooked them back up and went to start......lots of turning but no fire. I think the wire from the ignition got put on the neg side of the coil and fried the pertronix. Sound right to you all? All other wires were not moved.
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'70 Westy

[Desertbusman]

Hopefully something else more simple is the problem. But if you did hook up the red and black wire backwards you very possibly did fry it. I did mine backwards once and right away smoke came out of the distributor and the Ignitor had some melting. I think someone said that the latest units won't fry, if so that would be cool.
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71 Westy

[Randy in Maine]

Lets test it out little cyclonebuddy....before we jump to conclusions....

http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/PerNegGndTest.htm

[tolstoy]

Bus has a tach installed. Wires on coil positive side is a big orange wire with inline fuse which I assume is for backup lights....and red wire going to pertronix as well as to the carb. Neg side of coil has black wire from pertronix, red wire which I believe goes to tach and black wire that follows the tach wire.....I think that black one is what did me in. But mabee the wire I think goes to the tach is the ignition and the black one goes to the tach. If I got those two wires mixed up, would I fry the pertronix? I know that the wires that go to the pertronix were always in the right spot......the ones in question would be mixing up the ignition and the tach wires.
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'70 Westy

[Randy in Maine]

Stolen from Amskeptic.....

[tolstoy]

It's fried........can't believe I did that. Don't let anything distract you or you end up costing yourself money.

Hey Randy, nice to be recognized as a Cyclone! Do you have any history with Iowa State?

Tolstoy
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'70 Westy

[Glenn]

[Tcash]

[telford dorr]

As mentioned before, get some green and black 1/4" shrink tubing. Put a 1" length on green on the black wire terminal, and a similar length of black on the red wire terminal. Now you have VW standard wire colors: black for power and green for "points" - which every VW mechanic knows...
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[tolstoy]

Got a replacement pertronix installed and she fired right up. Ran kind of rough at first so I was getting ready to re-time it (something I'm not completely confidant in myself). She warmed up and smoothed right out. Drove down the street a ways and seems good to go.

Tolstoy
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The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
'70 Westy

[Tcash]

[Tom Powell]

[airschooled]