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Re: Re: Re: Re: Ignition Coils, Still Confused?
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Posted by To:. Ken McWilliams on November 03, 2000 at 20:33:56 from (63.253.192.193):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Ignition Coils, Still Confused? posted by Ken McWilliams on November 03, 2000 at 17:33:07:
Ken: They could make mechanical points jump a larger plug gap if they had wanted to. There was another key factor and that was the time duration of each spark. The mechanical system was slow and produced a spark that would last a long time. This long sparktime would wear down the plug quicker. The solid state devices cut that time duration down a lot and increased plug life (along with an easy increase in voltage due to being a quicker switch). As always there are several trade offs but the length of time of each spark was a major key. By the way, very early transmitters ,in the late 1800's, used only spark gaps to generate morse code. harvey
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