Breakout Box

[Circle C Digger]

Can anyone recommend a good and inexpensive breakout box to go between the coil and the control box? or can one be easily constructed?

Do not want to accidently fry my control box when testing on the coil.

Thanks

Circle C Digger

[bbsailor]

Breakout Box

Circle C Digger

Maybe a better term is a breakout test lead. Use an in line male and female version of the coil connector that you are using. Cut two 4" pieces of insulated wire (Black and Red). Make the black wire be connected to the coil shield and the red wire be connected to the coax hot or center wire.

Cut one bare wire section .5" long on each wire, one inch for each end of the connector so the bare wire sections are not aligned and cannot short out. Tin the bare wire sections with solder.

This is what you can do with the breakout test lead.
1. Have an easy way to connect test equipment to your coil for various measurements.
2. Observe current waveforms going through the coil from PI control box with a scope current transformer probe being clamped around one of the wires.
3. Ovserve voltage waveforms across the coil by connecting the probe to the bare wire sections.
4. Clip a temporary test coil to the breakout test lead to connect a test coil to your PI control box.

I hope this helps.

bbsailor

[mbiondo]

Breakout box

Hello Circle,

Easy to fabricate a breakout box for the T2...get a male and female 5 pin connector and a small piece of perf board. Attach a small terminal strip having 5 positions to the perf board. Wire from each pin on the female connector to a pin on the terminal strip, and then to corresponding pin on male connector.

Then just plug the coil into the female end of the breakout box, and plug the male end of the breakout box into the detector.

Michael-