I was just thinking and reading about some other swaps that use the HEI modules and noticed that none of them use a condenser but in an HEI distributor there is a condenser in the same location in the circuit it is for points which is on the C terminal that is the lead to the - side of the coil. Obviously they do seem to work fine under normal conditions without it but was wondering what would happen under abnormal conditions? I read a recent post where someone had a module fail under wet conditions. Im thinking that due to the wet conditions he has sparks going places other than the plugs. Im thinking that there could have been an unusually high voltage spark which would have resulted in an unusually high spike back on the line to the module? We do know for a fact that heat and voltage spikes kill electronics. Would a condenser have saved it? The are $4 new so im thinking it cant hurt. They could easily be mounted under the grounding mounting screw for the module. I did some checking and it seems that 90% of the hei's used the same condenser, it was not dependent on # of cyls or rpm like the points ones were. Other note is at least Napa calls it a capacitor which is the proper name for the component.
