Re: Duty Cycle

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Original poster: "G by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bog-at-cinci.rr-dot-com>

Ted, I ran my first coil (6", 15/60) for at least 45 continuous 
minutes once I had it tuned. But, by that time, the arcs seemed less 
impressive, and I started to open up the gaps. We all know where 
things go from there... :) Racing arcs at first, then my rolled caps 
died. I realized later what I had been doing wrong: the gaps were so 
wide they sometimes didn't fire for a second or two...
Gregory

>Just an informal survey if you all don't mind.
>
>My classical coil (sorry toobers) ran about 10 to 15 seconds ON and about 30
>seconds OFF for an average evening time of 5 hours on Fridays, Saturdays and
>Sundays this past October.
>That is a total ON time of up to 1 hour, 40 min. per evening (if my math is
>right and it might not be).
>
>That got me wondering.
>What has the list's experience been with max ON time of anyone's coil?
>In other words, how long has anyone left their coil on before they felt it
>was "too long" and had everything go OK?
>
>Curious
>
>
>Ted