Pertronix installed...tractor not starting

After installation I went to start the tractor and only got a brief whine and click....battery was low. This was odd since I never had this issue before (new battery last year, 12V conversion last year).

I have the battery on the charger and I'll report back.

I ordered Kit #1244A.

Also, while working on the tractor I discovered several small wasp nest. Knocked them off only to have several wasps hovering for the remainder of the afternoon!

Paul.

Soundguy

It also increases the strength of the spark. It has worked extremely well on my 1967 Land Rover. Basically, you install them and forget about them.

My battery is charged and in the next day or so I'll go back over to our land and report back on the performance.

Paul.

The points based system is a debounced switch that is mechanically actuated.

The pertronix ignition system is a transistorized solid state switch with supporting circuitry, including a magnetically tripped switch like a hall effect circuit.. for example.

Due to component content, and circuit design.. you cannot call it a simpler circuit.... Having even a single transistor trumps that argument.

Soundguy

If you compare the number of moving parts and intermittent contacts between the Pertronix Ignitor system and the points/condensor set-up the Pertronix is indeed simpler...not even close. The design is used in many ignition systems. To go further the Pertronix Ignitor II system even has more corrective circuitry. As with most integrated circuits, if the system doesn't fail in its first few hours of operation then the circuit likely won't have a failure and will be fairly robust.

I stand by my comment that the Pertronix is simpler than the points/condensor.

Paul.

A fingernail file 'may' get you home if you have a points ignition and you encounter a problem. With an electron ignition.. that same fingernail file will let you file your nails while you wait for a wrecker.

Just because there is an electronic replacement to a circuit with mechanical components don't immediatly assume it is simpler.

The technology behind a set of points is simple spring, cam and lever.. that's something the greeks came up with. The operation and design of a doped npn/pnp or n-channel, or FET style transistor is a 1950's era brainchild.

The technology needed to make a set of points has been available for over a century and longer if the idea had been there.. the technology needed to make a transistor is just hitting the 50 year mark...

So I stand by my ascertation that a circuit requiring transistors is not simpler than one requiring a switch ( points )... there is a magnatude of difference.

Soundguy

By a HUGE margin.. I have had more failures with solid state parts vs electromechanical assemblies.

Soundguy

Soundguy