Re: Triggered gap questions

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Frank,

It "should".  However, I wonder what a big spike would do to the hair thin
secondary wire of the ignition coil.  I also wonder if the spike would go
through the 5 miles of thin wire or just arc something inside it.  the
secondary has a very high inductance so it make look like an open to the spike
(which may prevent the kick back right there?).  I also wonder what path the
other side of the primary cap will take to find ground to complete the loop...

So I am not really sure what happens.  I have many more questions than answers
there ;-)

Cheers,

        Terry


At 02:24 AM 8/2/2001 -0400, you wrote: 


>
>       Dear Terry    
>
>
>             Was i correct when i assumed that the *posible* kick back spike 
> would go strait through the hv coil and right out to the ground?