Balast resistor or no?

I ran that same Edelbrock 22739 1.4 OHM coil with an factory .5 OHM Ballast Resistor this past spring

Once the coil got hot at idle , the engine would just die - Always restarted instantly , but got really annoying at stop lights if you know what I mean , just idling fine and die

In all honesty I thought I had a carb issue after winter storage so that was the first thing I looked into

But then I remembered changing to this coil right before I put the car away for winter storage

Swapped it out for my trusted Standard UC12 and the problem was solved - Perfect idle for as long as I had gas in the tank