If it was Melbourne cup I would of been on Q1 from the start.

Lets just say I'm impressed!

I just bought a slightly better DMM along with some new TIP36c's (not cheap).

I will put the new one in and see how we go.

The bad news is I've lost my label I had on the wires for the coil in question.  How can I tell which is which (one is purple with yellow band & the other blue with black band).  The purple is thicker gauge..