[Amps] High Voltage Wire

Gary Smith Gary at ka1j.com
Tue Jan 20 17:41:45 EST 2015


If Spark Plug wire is what you're going with, ask for Tractor spark 
plug wire, solid copper & 7mm, I bought mine some at Auto Zone. 8MM 
is available from NAPA. 

Off topic but related to resistive plug wire & radio: Old Yamaha 
bikes have issues with the ignition when using solid copper so they 
put a 5K Ohm resistor in the plug cap when using a conventional spark 
plug & the original solid core wire. The newer Iridium plugs have a 
5K resistor internal so with the old bikes you remove the resistor in 
the cap & replace it with brazing rod (Or buy resistorless new plug 
caps). You do not want resistive wire & any other resistor in line or 
you will also have ignition problems.

I have Iridium plugs with 8mm copper center plug wire & resistorless 
caps and when I have any of my bikes running, there is zero 
interference I can hear, on the car AM radio from 3 feet away.

73,
Gary
KA1J

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