Question. Did you use a digital gauge or analog ?I checked the resistance on several Animal Blue coils I have and they all tested right around 7000 ohms. The coil on the engine that had the misfire last Sunday tested at 17000 ohms, so I'm going to venture a guess that is my misfire. We won't know for sure until next Sunday when we try the new coil. I hope I got it fixed.
I have one of each, but in this case I used the digital gauge. I'm not trying to nit-pick your work, but what were you checking that makes you believe your digital was erroneous? For what it's worth, I've resistance checked snowmobile coils that the reading fluctuated while I was connected to it. In fact, if I suspect a bad coil on a snowmobile I'll leave my ohm-meter connected to it, heat it up with a blow dryer and watch where the reading goes the whole time it's heating and cooling back down. Over the years I've found a few coils that checked out good initially, but after monitoring them a while the resistance reading would vary up and down as I'm hooked to it. I've found both secondary coils and stator coils that were bad this way. I can't see any reason this wouldn't work on an Animal coil as well.Question. Did you use a digital gauge or analog ?
I got some erouniuos readings with my digital .
Varing from 6k-11k .
On the boat cdi ignition they recommend analog .
Or a digital converter .
I'd sooner think your digital meter was fine, and the coil itself was bad.Each time i checked it gave a differnt reading . of course this is a coil i suspected as bad , and replaced .
It would also show say 11k then fall to zero . I think ill dig up a analog just for fun .
so maybe it really was bad .
Nice idea with the blow dryer .