accuspark wiring

[robert regan]

I am going to fit my accuspark distributor tomorrow its been sitting here for six months, its for negative earth car there is no wiring diagram in the box!, its got a red wire and a black wire who can tell me please which wire goes where. I have blown a unit years ago when wired wrongly on a jaguar regards to all Rob.

[Peter Johnson]

The red lead needs to be fed from +6V so the +ve terminal of the coil or back to the IGN on the switch panel should suffice. Black wire should be connected to the -ve side of the coil in the same way that the old distributor points were connected. The distributor ground is through the body and I have a second earth lead from the dynamo body to earth to ensure good contact is made.

Peter

[Ruairidh Dunford]

The red wire goes to the ignition feed side of the coil (SW) and the black wire goes to the points side (CB).

I have found it benificial to use a coil which gives at least 1.5 ohms of protection and also to ensure the two wires are secured very tightly.

[robert regan]

thanks for that I did not want another unit to go,I can follow quite complex wiring diagrams but really its all electrickery to me thanks again Rob.

[jansens]

The most useful link I found with diagrams is this one: http://www.accuspark.co.uk/fitting_guide.html

There is other documentation here: http://www.accuspark.co.uk/help.html
Note there are different ones for positive and negative earth cars. 

Seemed odd to me too that the actual distributor didn't come with any printed instructions.

Simon

[Nigel Ricardo]

You should have a wiring diagram written by Vince Leek ,( copied from DoA7c website ) Accuspark say they commissioned Vince Leek to write it, Vince says he has never spoken to them.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

The wiring diagram mentioned above is for the Dynamator, not the distributor.