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CA Ignition Voltage Noise Battery Terminals
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    Posted: 18 Sep 2024 at 9:34am
I'm getting severe spikes of engine ignition voltage on the battery terminals when running. Disconnected all gen/reg wires, still there...ideas? Coil ground? It's a new coil
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I guess maybe it's just too much noise for my cheap digital volt meter...hundreds of volts (fluctuating wildly) on your 6v battery terminals is disconcerting:(
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Negative ground?  The only way I'd expect to see ignition voltage pulses at the battery would be either a bad main battery connection or perhaps something with the condensor (new ones are rubbish, how much arcing do you get at the points?)

I'm probably missing something, but that's all I can think for the moment. May check back in when my brain returns from strike action, if you've not resolved it by then.

edit- may just be the noise affecting the meter you're right, but surely it's far enough away from the coil that it'd not affect it. Gut feeling says bad connection somewhere


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Think the meter, goes haywire if I just hold the pos lead in my hand with neg lead dangling anywhere near the tractor...analog meter that dad dug out not affected
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YEP... the old $15. meters will do that... You can POINT it at the tractor without even touching the battery and it will JUMP !!
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