72 TA : New Project

[njsteve]

Just to be safe, I temporarily installed that ballast resistor between the factory pos leads and the pos terminal on the coil. I mounted the ballast low on the firewall using the existing through bolt from one of the three pedal bracket bolts coming through the firewall. You can't see it unless you are really looking for it. Runs 9.4 volts at idle.

[njsteve]

Spoke with both M&H and American Autowire today.

American Autowire is working on getting me a replacement harness. They said it is possible that it was put together wrong, without a resistor wire, a few years ago when I originally purchased it. (Luckily I saved the invoice) They seem to be very attentive to customer needs and it looks like they are going to send me a new harness so I can swap it out and return the old one so they can dissect it.

M&H, the makers of the SE breakerless conversion indicated that you should only run the lower voltage (9 volts) to their unit when running and not a full 12 volt load because it will eventually burn out the unit. They agreed that running the ballast resistor is a good thing to do for the time being.