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the CDI or put in an opto. It seems that
quite a few after-market computers do
this, whereas manufacturers tend to be
the other way.
Second, I have read that old coils
like these will not handle the extra
work and voltage and I should replace
them with two single coils (LS1) or
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four coils in total for this car. This
particular issue seems to be glossed
over. The Haltech has two outputs for
spark ignition (IGN and ALT) in the sequential mode I use, so I am currently
building two of the new CDI units. (B.
H., via email).
• The reluctor input would be bet-
ter to invert the Haltech low-to-fire
switching sense. We doubt that the
MX5 ignition coils would be shortlived when using the CDI. The CDI
would actually cause the coils to heat
up far less than compared to conventional inductive ignition where the
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