ORIGINAL: Ernie Misner

Thanks a1PCfixer! I was thinking old school on the early ignitions that required 4.8 volts. HOWEVER, following that link, Jody did make an interesting case or two for not using the higher voltages..... ? (shorter battery life at 6 volts and still more failures)

>>> While the Rcexl literature states the acceptable maximum input voltage range is up to 7 volts, it also states the typical voltage input at 4.8 volts. Two other aspects that are worthy to note are that the current consumption of the ignition at 6.6v input is double what it is at 4.8v, this means your battery will only last 1/2 as long. Lastly, as one that sees many, many engines and ignitions, I can tell you that the failure rate for ignition modules run with input voltage above 6.0 volts is roughly double that of modules run with <6.0 volt inputs, once you're able to see the larger volume sample size it's clear that <6.000 volts makes the ignition much more reliable and robust. >>>

Thanks,

Ernie

ORIGINAL: a1pcfixer

Two other points to consider;

1) Higher input voltage does not equal higher ignition output
(more accurately, we lack the ability to measure the minute increase)
(and such tiny increase does nothing to improve eng operation)

2) Higher input voltage is wasted energy that gets dissipated as heat.
Guess where that occurs?

ORIGINAL: clivemc


Have you actually got measured and factual results for the above statements? I would be very glad to discuss it with you,not being funny- we have been doing sometesting and I am not going to post everything here now. We have some more testing still being done and when complete i will postit. However we have seenthat higher input DOES equal higher output, but further testing is in progress. point number 2 you eldude to heat being dissipated i prrsume in the module.Again i have tests where we have run modules on both 4,8V and 5,7V and there wasNO increase in heat in the module...