70 up charging system upgrade question

Hi Matt, yes it did fire up normally a few days ago. Now cant get it to fire. Measured coil +ve to batt +ve and got 10.34v. I thought I would give it a full 12V direct from batt +ve to coil +ve and it doesn't even turn over.
Did I miss it? How do you know its not sparking?
My impression was that it fired up so you didn't bother getting a spark tester/