The car is a 1930 Chevy coupe, all original (mostly). I got rid of the Electrolock and am running a universal ign switch, it's an OFF/ON. The problem is I have 6v in to the switch and at the Pos side of the coil it drops to 5.6v. I also measured the Neg side and it's a little over 1v. I was thinking it should have close to 6v on both terminals. It is a new 6v coil and it is wired correctly. Ideas?
The negative side is ground. Triggered by points. To test, take coil secondary wire off distributor and hold near a ground. Disconnect ground, neg, wire from coil. Take a short jumper wire, attach to neg side. Turn switch on and touch jumper wire to ground. Each time you create and break ground coil should spark.
.5 volts wont be enough for it to matter, the car isnt running so it'll be down a bit, once its running it'll be fine. the points are probably closed or pretty close to closed since it has only 1v, the main circuit is going through the secondary windings and out to the spark plugs.
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