on a 72 corvette, i went to start it barely turned over. so i charged battery. 3 hours later the coil was very hot, smoking & boiling over. had to disconnect battery. after cooling i tested voltage to coil 8-10v when swtch was in any position.

Hot ignition coil

Bill_Russell February 29, 2008, 5:48pm 10

I had forgotten about the ballast resistor, knew there had to be something. And that triggered my memory about the bypass connection in the solenoid.