When you soldered the connections did you first remove and clean them or
did you figure that the solder would "clean up" the connection?
KWW
On 7/5/2012 3:26 AM, John wrote:
> Jeez, its quite!. After very much longer than I care to admit I twigged that
> the cause of my T3 being reluctant to start when hot may have nothing to do
> with carburation.
> Taking the other approach I decided to look at ignition electrics.
> Ignition is fed by a relay under back seat energised by original feed from
> ignition switch.
> Measured voltage at the battery with ignition on, points closed, no starter
> and its 12.5 volts. Measured voltage at "+" of ignition coil with same
> conditions and its 10.5 volts!. Two volts dropped across ~ 2 meters of
> cable, an in line fuse, relay contacts and various crimp connectors.
> Confirmed it with a meter from battery to coil positive. =2 volts drop.
> With the starter on I,d be looking at another 2 volt drop giving ~8 volts
> to ignition making starting suspect .
> Soldered all crimp connections, the two volt drop went down to 0.5 volts,
> car starts fine , hot ot cold.
> All crimp connectors were industrial quality, the correct size, the
> crimps made by decent crimpers, cable clean . I,ve been in electronics for
> 45 years and on appearances I would have said it looked perfect.
> You,d think at 64 y.o you would have heard most things but obviously not!.
> John
>
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