<VV> Re: No Capacitor

[djtcz at comcast.net]

Yeah, LC not RC, like Harry said.

Sorry

--
Dan Timberlake

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From: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net> 

> It's an LC circuit, not RC. An RC circuit won't do squat. 
> 
> Harry Yarnell 
> Perryman Garage and Orphanage 
> hyarnell1 at earthlink.net 
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> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 3:31 PM 
> Subject: Re: No Capacitor 
> 
> 
> > An electrical engineer friend once explained to me that the coil 
> > (inductive load) and condensor/capacitor (capacitive load) combine to form 
> > an RC circuit. The result is to boost ~ 12 V to ~ 250 V on the low 
> > voltage/primary side of the coil shotrly after the points open. No cap 
> > means the coil only would see about 12 Volts, which would mean real low 
> > zap to teh plug. Proof (Touching the little wire terminals of a runing 
> > engine with points ignition ) is left to non-believers and terminally 
> > curious.. 
> > 
> > http://www.picotech.com/auto/tutorials/images/fig1-2.png 
> > 
> > http://www.picotech.com/auto/tutorials/ignition-primary.html 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dan Timberlake 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> >> Message: 7 
> >> Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:42:01 -0700 (PDT) 
> >> From: Smitty Smith 
> >> Subject: No Capacitor 
> >> 
> >> > That's strange, Harry. I have a distributor running (temporarily) in my 
> >> > test 
> >> > engine (on a stand) with no internal capacitor and it works just fine. 
> >> > The internal capacitor is to prevent (or at least slow down) the 
> >> > erosion 
> >> > of 
> >> > the points contacts by absorbing the breaking arc. 
> >> > Regards> 
> >> --------------------------------------------------- 
> >> Smitty says, that is exactly why it is running just fine. It is on a test 
> >> stand. It will never carry a load. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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