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Originally Posted by Sun Tuned
Well it looks like I stumbled onto to something yesterday....
Google search
Standard LX807....
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Looked at Amazon for that number.
They suggest LX809, LX811, LX813, LX814, LX816 which are also "electronic conversions" fitting various applications. For all I know there are additional "conversion" numbers that Amazon either doesn't carry, or that I haven't stumbled onto.
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Originally Posted by Sun Tuned
After talking to the tech guru at pertronix, I found out if it doesn't come in their box and have their stickers on the actual Hall effect... it's not theirs...
...Apparently Standard is manufacturing a knockoff of the pertronix. Oreilleys around here is marketing the thing as a pertronix. It's not. Just call one and ask if they have an lx807, and they will tell you all about it.
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Just because Pertronix has disowned the Standard-branded products, doesn't mean they didn't build the thing. Perhaps they sell in bulk to Standard at a discount, part of the discount is that they will never have to deal with warranty or "Tech line" issues on Standard-boxed product. So no "Pertronix" box and label, and no after-sale support.
Or the Communists really have knocked-off
another product, and Standard is the importer/collaborator/patsy. This would be disturbing, 'cause I previously had a lot of respect for Standard and their upmarket Blue Streak line--but the last time I bought Blue Streak (a "Ford"-style fender-mounted starter solenoid) it was also Made in China, so it went back.
For my part, I consider the Pertronix about as suspect as Mallory Uni-Lite; both are under-designed, lacking normal and ordinary protection circuitry, and therefore unreasonably fragile.