Funny thing is I also worked at a Dodge dealer for 24 years and when they started using the 3 wire Hall Effect unit in the dist one of the Mopar tech guys told me its better then the AC pick-up because it uses a higher voltage (5 volt signal wire) then the AC pick-up thats about 1.6 volts AC signal so it wont be effected by a dirty connection as easy. So I thought we would not see many AC pick-up units much more but thats not true as many still use them so I guess the Hall Effect is not all that much better. Ron
Hall effect is a cleaner signal than the old reluctor setup, computers don't like dirty signals. As for the signal strength of the old setup, it varies with RPM, at idle it's small, get up in rpm and it can approach 100v. It is essentially an unregulated AC generator.
