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Re: can you use spark plug wires??



Subject:  Re: can you use spark plug wires??
  Date:   Sun, 4 May 1997 04:30:06 -0500
  From:  "Brad McPeak" <bmcpeak-at-gte-dot-net>
    To:   <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>, "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


Hello List Members,
Spark  Plug wire with a solid copper core can be purchased by the roll
from
JC WHITNEY for a pretty decent price. It is heavily insulated.
Brad McPeak
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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: can you use spark plug wires??
> Date: Saturday, May 03, 1997 11:51 PM
> 
> Subject:     Re: can you use spark plug wires??
>       Date:  Fri, 02 May 1997 16:38:08 -0700
>       From:  David Trimmell <dwt-at-efn-dot-org>
>        To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> References: 
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> 
> Hello William,
> 
> " it dawned on me that
> typical 
> automotive spark plug wire is a carbon core with 30KV insulation around
> it.  
> It is designed to suppress all sorts of stuff yet pass a decent
> current.  It 
> seems to me that the neon to capacitor connections could be made with
> this 
> wire, with the following benefits:
> 
> 1. protection of the neon(s)
> 2. RF suppression for 60HZ line
> 3. protection of the user due to good HV insulation
> 4. cheap
> 5. no inductors to build"
> 
> The resistance of the spark plug wires would be way to high, and they
> are not designed to handle much current, a few miliamps at most.
> 
> David Trimmell