Ballast Resistor Location

[Welsh Warlock]

I have purchased a later type electronic distributor and I need to locate the ballast resistor.

Can anyone tell me where it is located and what it looks like?

My car is not the armoured cable variety.

Also, I don't recall ever seeing a connection for the tacho. How is the tachometer connected. There was a capacitor connected to some white wires under the coil bolts which I assumed was suppression for the radio interference?

From what I have read, the ballast resistor was purely to drop the coil voltage once the car was strated to stop the points burning. As the coil I have purchased with the new distributor says not to be used on a car with points, I assume the ballast resistor will need bypassing?

[Phil Nottingham]

If its not a white ceramic thing next to the coil on the n/s wing under the wiper motor it will be a thermo wire resister in the loom (Pink). Coil is then mounted high up on nearside wing and there is no starter solenoid shunt either.

This topic was covered endlessly on the old forum

The coil should be wired direct to the unfused side of the "Ignition control" of the fuse box. The tacho is of the impulse type and may need converting to suit the electronic dizzy. This has been covered on this forum so try Search set for 500 days

[Welsh Warlock]

Thanks Phil,

looks like mine is the loom type.

I have already sussed taking a live off the ignition control and the car is up and running again at last.

I'll search for the tacho conversion.

Cheers

Alan