Do I HAVE to desolder the diode on a coil in order to test it?
I'm having a couple of fuses blowing and I've started checking diodes. I've checked a few on switches (still soldered on) and they're coming up good. I have two coils, however, with diodes that are reading bad. Do I need to unhook one end of the diode on a coil to determine if it's good? It looks like such a pain, I'm almost willing to just put a new coil on it, but I hate to just throw money at the problem.
I'm having a couple of fuses blowing and I've started checking diodes. I've checked a few on switches (still soldered on) and they're coming up good. I have two coils, however, with diodes that are reading bad. Do I need to unhook one end of the diode on a coil to determine if it's good? It looks like such a pain, I'm almost willing to just put a new coil on it, but I hate to just throw money at the problem.

