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Ok, so is there any benefits to spending much more on the Lumenition?! Electric ignition is electric ignition, surely?!
Electronic systems do not like getting hot. Heat degrades their reliability, especially repeated heating / cooling cycles.
The Optronic system has the electronics all potted inside a nice finned aluminium heatsink which can be remote mounted from the engine, say on a ( relatively ) cool bulkhead
Any system mounted inside the distributor will be cycled from cold up to about 80 deg C as it is in thermal contact with the engine block only cooled by the coolant. Plus the extra heat generated by the switching electronics which will be on top of this 80 deg C.
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And then there is the vibration problem inside the distributor all mounted on the cylinder block which also decreases reliability.
Are you going to notice this on a daily driver doing 15,000 miles a year ?
Well, at 40 mph average speed that equates to about 375 hours use per year. About 1 hour per day.
It only has to fail once.
Tony.