Okay, so let me start by giving some info on my set up: it is a 76 sporty ive built from scratch. The wiring was finished yesterday (or so I thought) but just now I smell some smoke and go check... the coil has melted all over my primary and is HOT to touch. this is after i watched it spark and i watched the points spark as well. now, the key was off and all wires were fine and cool to touch. I have done some reading and what ive found is that it is possible that if the points were touching then the coil is receiving current through the neg terminal thus potentially causing a problem, which may be a plausible explanation since i have not yet timed my points its just been stuck in there... aaannndd also now my points seem to be fried since they no longer spark. Second thing is that I did not know a coil needs some sort of resistor( and i am still not sure) ; i popped some random harley coil on there and stuck a couple homemade spark plug wires on it and forgot about it but now I just saw some video of a guy explaining the point of a resistor in the spark plug boot which made me recognize my mistake... my boots do not have resistors simply a wire clamped in and shoved on to the coil. so i am thinking that with no resistors, and the points making contact to the neg terminal for about an hour potentially fried my coil. also, i just assumed that the negative terminal on the coil was whichever is hooked up to the points so i never tested it! that's probably a cause too! dang always somethin huh
I'll describe my wiring: i am running everything to a 3 pos key switch. I have ign/batt/reg on the 1st position, and the lights on the second position. there is a small fuse between the batt and the key switch. my idea was that i could run the bike w no lights if needed and click the key one more time to turn them on. no elect. starter
So that is my newest problem, maybe anyone with more knowledge than i have about this will be kind enough to drop a little on me
I'll describe my wiring: i am running everything to a 3 pos key switch. I have ign/batt/reg on the 1st position, and the lights on the second position. there is a small fuse between the batt and the key switch. my idea was that i could run the bike w no lights if needed and click the key one more time to turn them on. no elect. starter
So that is my newest problem, maybe anyone with more knowledge than i have about this will be kind enough to drop a little on me
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