No Spark with Plug, But Spark from Lead.

[Boudreaux In Eunice La.]

Coils do come in DOA, but I have never seen one.... I have heard of it though....... Sometimes on a rider mower as in a older one positive voltage can get to the kill wire and zap the coil right away.......

If the same thing happens in the future then you will need to check the wiring on your unit.......

Briggs has a very stringent QC system, but a bad coil coil can get thru.....

Plus Tard Mon Ami ~!~!

 

[Boudreaux In Eunice La.]

BTW that's why I mentioned in an earlier post to use a good known coil from a used mower........

Let us know if something goes awry ...........

 

[bertsmobile1]

Check that cut off wire to the coil.
If it shows any voltage under any condition it will fry the Hall Effect trigger chip inside the coil.
Some of them are more tolerant than others.
Testing the coil with a cheap meter can in fact fry the chip as well.
Not much chance of a refund.
Briggs Australia is even tighter than Briggs USA.
As of today Briggs have taken over the distribution of Oregon products so if you have any Oregon products forget about getting parts for them, or uncommon chains or bars.
Expect to see lots of Oregon branded ( Chinese made ) battery stuff in stores where "lowest prices are Just the beginning" ( of your problems ).

 

[1bert1]

Now for the burning question,
Did you buy the replacement from a mower shop, a real retail outlet or a pretend on line shop ?
Ever wondered what happens to all the parts made in cheap labour countries that fail the QC testing for Briggs /Kohler / Honda etc ?
They ultimately end up on the site of an on line seller at an unreal low price, truthfully advertised as OEM part, they just neglect to tell you that they are quality control failures.
If it came from a mower shop take it back and ask them to test it. If the counter staff go red in the face then slink off like a sly dog & give you a replacement, naked then it is a knock off of dubious quality.
Good ones come in branded boxes ( or bags ) and will have both a part number and batch / serial number on them,.

Great point. There is a multi billion dollar business in counterfeit products! I work for Kemet Electronics. We make triple redundant capacitors. They are made using tantalum which is actually a metal that can hold a charge. We make them for defense, private and public satellites and the ISA. I was in China a while back and a coworker and I found this huge electronics mall. We went into one shop and they had rolls of Kemet's capacitors. They were counterfeits! They were also priced much lower. Tantalum is about 150 dollars a pound. We could also see that they used a video jet to print the information of the capacitors. We laser etch that information.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Yep.
Some flag waving, church going, American born , patriotic, fine upstanding, community member went over there with some of your products and said, "can you make me 1,000,000 that look exactly like this , really cheap cheap ? "
And that is exactly what the factory did.
Except they made 2,000,000 of them and sold the rest into the general market.

People like to think that those nasty, thieving, slanty eyed, devils send spies over to the USA ( or Aust or the UK or Germany ) to steal our great products and make counterfeit ones.
But that is not how it works.
The factories make what they get paid to make.
Only problem is once set up to make your stuff, nothing to stop them making a lot more .
Down here retail chain shops commission counterfeit products in order to dupe the general public that they are getting exactly the came product as the locally made one that sells for $ 200 for $ 50 .
And because people are the most stupid species on the planet, we buy it without thought then it breaks so we go buy a different product because the one we bought looked exactly like the expensive local one so that must be trash as well/.
Thus the local company goes broke and the quality products vanish forever.