27-03-2019, 10:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-03-2019, 10:49 PM by Stuart Giles.)
(26-03-2019, 05:41 PM)JonE Wrote: I see from their website that copper leads can cause interference. Could that mean it could kill the unit? I didn't know that when I bought it.
When aftermarket Electronic ignition manufacturers advise against Copper leads and/or mandate carbon string leads it's often because their electronics don't stand up so well to the much larger pulse passed back from a Copper HT lead through the coil -this the so called back EMF; on a points system, this back EMF will be absorbed by the condenser. I learned this lesson the hard way with two failures of Lumenition Performance modules in the space of a couple of months; one of the failures was while sitting on the dummy grid at Silverstone.
The imperative of carbon leads for this product was buried somewhere on the Lumenition website, but wasn't referenced in the fitting instructions that came with the kit.