Been taking time fixing some roadside/redneck electrical repairs on my 1980 special. Yesterday I replaced the starter solenoid and put the ballast resistor back in the ignition circuit. Would only run when cranking, so I check voltage at ballast 2vt jumping to 9 during crankin, check voltage at TCI output to ballast 2vt. Remove TCI and clean contacts for wiring harness and decide lets open this up and see what we can see.
![](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/jdabreeze/TCI002.jpg)
lets take a close look
![](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/jdabreeze/TCI003.jpg)
that don't look good, the second one is burned through or broke when I checked to see if it was.
Is there a schematic of the circuit board to determine what this circuit went to?.. I will assume it is for the ballast resistor. I have read that bypassing the ballast will cook the coils but it has been 2 years? and 3-5000 miles since that road side repair with no issues at this point in time. I may just throw back on and see if it runs at all now. Any other suggestions while I try and find my soldering iron.
![](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/jdabreeze/TCI002.jpg)
lets take a close look
![](http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n173/jdabreeze/TCI003.jpg)
that don't look good, the second one is burned through or broke when I checked to see if it was.
Is there a schematic of the circuit board to determine what this circuit went to?.. I will assume it is for the ballast resistor. I have read that bypassing the ballast will cook the coils but it has been 2 years? and 3-5000 miles since that road side repair with no issues at this point in time. I may just throw back on and see if it runs at all now. Any other suggestions while I try and find my soldering iron.
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