<VV> Re: No Capacitor

[djtcz at comcast.net]

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

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Dan Timberlake

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> 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> 
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> 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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