RE: Spark Plugs

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• Subject: RE: Spark Plugs
• From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:08:33 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Automotive spark plugs are not designed to quench.  Just the opposite, they
want the spark to exist for as long as possible, just what we don't want.
Nor are they designed to dissipate the amount of power that we routinely
"waste" in our gaps.

Gary Lau
Waltham, MA USA

>Original Poster: "Ted Rosenberg" <TRosen1-at-Tandy-dot-com> 
>
>Based on the use of NON resistor spark plugs, properly gapped and connected
>and seated and cooled.....what's wrong with using them?
>Or in other words, why are we trying to invent a better spark plug when GM
>and Ford and those guys spend much more money on the development? What am I
>missing here?
>
>Ted
		

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