Re: Car Coil

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Hmmmmm,  I thought the 'condenser' was to keep the points from burning up too
quickly. 
Mike 

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> KEEP ONE SMALL THOUGHT the capacitor used on a car coil (.23uf) is chosen to 
> make the primary winding resonant with the secondary winding for maximun 
> voltage out. this will get you about 36kv out to drive your coil.If you use 
> the circuit common to cd ignitions on racing cars you should get about 3 
> times the voltage out. Dont try to push the coil any more than that or the 
> insulation of the coil will break down. 
>    Robert H 
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