From: Daven Anderson
Email: [email protected]
Date: November 10, 2001
The "coil" resistor is for the ignition coil and the "ballast" resistor is for the voltage regulator. They do the same thing. In a few cars (i.e. race cars w/aftermarket ignition coils) they can be set up to use the same size/type resistor for both the regulator and the coil.
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