Topic: Accell coils wiring question

[Rob M]

Hey all,

I am attempting to peice together a 1972 basket case, and am down to the accell coils that came with the bike unmounted.  They were probably on there at some point, seeing that there is a thick 14 gauge wire connecting the two coils and snipped off about 4 inches.  I should mention that there was some sort of catastrophic wiring burn out at some point before I got the bike, which I am trying to sort out.  I think I may have found the reason why, or one reason why.  This 14 gauge wire, connected to the black/white power wire on one coil (the yellow wire coil) was not connected to the similar black/white terminal on the blue wire coil, but to the  blue wire terminal.  From the wiring diagram, and from Hondamans diagram for his module this is REALLY not right.  But my questions are these.  this bike not having been fire up yet will this lead to a failure in the coil?  THis 14 gauge wire neccessary? Black/white to black/white? from there where should the wire end up? 

I know I am horrible at describing this stuff so heres a pic

[Rob M]

The side with the 14 gauge into the terminal with the blue wire.  Not right, i'm sure.

[Bodi]

The coils should be made to work on 12V and the bike only has 12V, so any wiring screwup can only put 12V on a 12V coil... not a problem. Wiring screwups can put wires across the 12V battery which tends to melt the wires.
The ignition coil wiring is really simple. Each coil has two low voltage terminals and two high voltage spark plug wire terminals. The plug wires go to plugs - one coil to the outside two cylinders and the other to the inside two cylinders. It doesn't matter which coil goes to which cylinder pair really, whichever way the plug wires fit the best.
The low voltage terminals - one gets connected to "ignition" power, on when the key switch and kill switch are both on. The other terminal connects to the points. The 1-4 set of points connects to the coil on cylinders 1 and 4. 2-3 to coil for 2 and 3. Bingo.