[1930-Pickup]

Kevin in NJ-

Thanks so much for your information. Very helpful.

I was aware of the need to place the condenser close to the points, but I was hoping that an ignition system as used with the Model A (6 v, not 'high performance') would be a bit more forgiving in mounting the condenser at the coil.

For a few months I've been running a NOS USA industrial capacitor rated at .25 mF, 100 v. Its mounted at the coil. No condenser at the distributor. I did this for the same basic reason as most people...get out of the heat, and make it easy to replace. It appears to be running very well with this configuration...perhaps an oscilloscope would tell me differently?

Kevin- Do you think that having the condenser mounted at the coil is a make-or-break issue for a Model A?

Alex