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Subject:Re: What did I destroy now? (Ignition fail)
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:52:59 -0500
At 02:11 PM 2/11/2010, Bob Stevens wrote:
>I'm pretty sure that was David Beierle.

I may be the most recent but certainly not the only.  Dennis Haynes
comes to mind.  When the coil output doesn't have a path to ground
the voltage rises very high and tries to punch through the coil
insulation.  Eventually it's likely to succeed.

Yours,
David