If any owner wished to replace the ballast wire in any P6 that he or she may own, then would you not just bypass it? Find the entry and exit point, cut it at these points and run a new ballast wire on the outside of the loom or as Dave suggested run an ordinary wire and fit a ceramic ballast resistor alongside the coil.
Can a ballast resistor in the form of a length of resistive wire, which as a result of impeding the flow of conventional current through that wire sets up a voltage drop across it, burn out ..(ie..open circuit) without a problem being elsewhere? That is to say, would not the magnitude of current being drawn by the coil have to exceed that which the resistive wire can safely handle? Should that be the case, then the coil would require replacement too.
Ron.
Can a ballast resistor in the form of a length of resistive wire, which as a result of impeding the flow of conventional current through that wire sets up a voltage drop across it, burn out ..(ie..open circuit) without a problem being elsewhere? That is to say, would not the magnitude of current being drawn by the coil have to exceed that which the resistive wire can safely handle? Should that be the case, then the coil would require replacement too.
Ron.