At 02:12 AM 1/10/2002, Blake Thornton wrote: >So, what do you think about the possibility of a bad idle stabilizer >causeing the rpms to drop low (~600) and not respond to the throttle at >all? Doesn't sound likely to me, but I'm running out of ideas. If it doesn't do it with the stabilizer removed, then I reckon you've found your culprit...
> > Re your other post, it has no idea whether the throttle switch is > > closed or not, it's connected between the Hall generator at the > > distributor and the ignition module on the firewall. All it sees is > > rpm. > >Ok, so what is the job of the ignition module? Why does it need the heat >dissipator? It supplies the energy pulse to the ignition coil which the coil converts to high voltage to fire the plugs. It needs a heat sink because it wastes enough power to overheat the internal switching transistor(s). david
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