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Re: Cable question
From: Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 6:00 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Cable question
>
>From: Michael Baumann[SMTP:baumann-at-proton.llumc.edu]
>Sent: Friday, January 02, 1998 2:16 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Cable question
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>On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Tesla List wrote:
>
>> > 4. Get spark plug wire, from an auto parts store.
>>
>> Spark Plug Wire is a misleading term.
>>
>> More often than not, spark plug wires have no wire in them, but a carbon
>> fiber sort of conductor. Also, the additional resistance used to
>> suppress RF may be more resistance than you might want to put into your
>> system.
>>
>
>Exactly. What you must find is what is referred to as "Solid-Core"
>plug wire. Normally, the only place you can find this is in "performance"
>auto stores. Most people want the noise suppresion of resistor core
>plug wires, but speed freaks don't :)
Now, i'm kind of curious. How much resistance are we talking? I went to
the local auto parts store (the small business kind, with an old guy
behind a counter with shelves of parts), and asked him for some "normal"
ignition system hookup wire. He had mostly kits of full wiring systems,
but the stuff he had in bulk looks like stranded 14 gauge copper with
about .120" of black rubber over it. It measures 0.0 ohms for 5 feet,
and I can't see anything unusual about it. It's definitely not what I
would condsider "performance" cable either- I've seen that stuff and it's
not 8 cents a foot.
So the question is: is the resistance really supposed to be in the wire
itself, or is there a resistor moulded into the end plug perhaps? Seems
to me that if you wanted #14 wire with a constant non-neglegible
resistance per linear foot, it would have to be made of something other
than copper.
-Adam
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