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timing light update

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August 06, 2024, 10:18 PM
Larry Woodfin
timing light update
As an experiment, I bought a new MSD #8992 timing light. The good news is that it is much, much brighter than the 40-year-old model. With the old model, the marks were not visible in direct sunlight. The new model shows the marks easily visible in direct sun. My take is that the performance of the old light did, in fact, degrade over time.


Larry Woodfin



August 07, 2024, 09:32 AM
FootbrakeJim
Thank you for the update, Larry. I was considering buying one of those, and your info is what I was hoping to hear. Wink


Dan "Jim" Moore
Much too young to feel this damn old!!
August 07, 2024, 11:12 AM
Goob
quote:
Originally posted by Larry Woodfin:
As an experiment, I bought a new MSD #8992 timing light. The good news is that it is much, much brighter than the 40-year-old model. With the old model, the marks were not visible in direct sunlight. The new model shows the marks easily visible in direct sun. My take is that the performance of the old light did, in fact, degrade over time.


I'm pretty sure that I remember those old school strobe lamps being a gas charged kind of deal, and I'd guess it would degrade much like a fluorescent tube does.


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August 07, 2024, 12:49 PM
CURTIS REED
Are there any out there that use a LED light source in them?



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