Well, I am having some difficulty with my new dual points dizzy. I have already had to ship back my original set of points because they were faulty. While I was waiting for a new set I decided to get some tools so I could set my new ones correctly. Besides a feeler gauge I got a Dwell Meter by Actron. The directions dont make any sense. It tells me to ground one wire, and hook the other up to my negative igntion coil wire/dizzy points wire. I dont know how the thing is suppose to work with out any power being supplied to it. And it doesnt. But now my coil doesnt fire at all. So I am wondering if they shipped to me another set of messed up points that have a different problem, or if some how my coil quite working.

 

http://www.centuryperformance.com/point_settings.asp

 

Yeah I have read that. I havent gone through it all yet. My points are roughly set. But the way they say to hook up the Dwell Meter has gat me all "wuh?"

 

Get out the dwell meter and connect it. The red lead goes to the points side of the coil (negative terminal) and the black clamps onto any good ground point on the engine. Start the engine and measure the dwell angle. If it isn't in the middle of the allowable range (say, 24 degrees when the range is 20-26 degrees) stop the engine and move the point gap closer to raise the dwell or farther apart to lower it. Keep doing so until the dwell is correct.

 

Mine did nothing when hooked up like that. I am curious to how it possibly could with no power to it. Using 2 negative connections cant power a gauge.

 

using a digital meter?

 

No, an Actron analog one. I googled up some stuff. Found a guy that was using the one I have on an FI car. But he used one of the two wire for the ground, the other to some positive service port/plug. Which made sense. But like you said above is how they say to do it in the instructions (on a points dizzy). But I know they must be wrong. Or have a really fancy way of retrieving a power source from thin air.