I'm hoping somebody can point me in the right direction here. I am running a Pamco ignition, PMA and a Sparx capacitor. I recently had a resistor burn up on a previous Pamco (Pete replaced the unit for me under warranty, though the fault appears to lie elsewhere). When I received the new Pamco, I wired it separately from the rest of my system so that I could test the output of my PMA without frying the Pamco. When I measured the output of the PMA at the capacitor, it varied between 14.2 and 15.5v or so. After verifying that the ground on my regulator was solid, I determined that the regulator was bad. I ordered a new regulator from Hugh and installed it last night, but I am still seeing voltage spikes as high as 15.6v. The regulator is grounded on a motor mount, my frame has no paint or clearcoating on it whatsoever and all of my wiring connections are soldered. I have swapped a known good battery in place of my capacitor for testing and while it appeared to help a bit, I still had voltage spikes around 15.15v or so. When I disconnected the ground / output of my regulator, as suggested by a poster in another thread, and hooked my meter up to these connections, my readings never went over 14.7v .
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated, this is making no sense to me based on the bit I know.
Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated, this is making no sense to me based on the bit I know.