Re: TSG question

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Mark,

If you do what you state below, you will only get several hundred volts out
of the ignition coil and it will not be able to trigger a gap.  What makes
the ignition coil produce the high voltage pulses is the sudden collapse of
the magnetic field when contacts open or a power transistor turns off after
the current has built up to 5 amps or so.  Or, in the case of a dimmer with
cap in series, a capacitor charged to over a hundred volts is suddenly
discharged through the coil.
--Steve
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Subject: TSG question


> Original poster: "Stolz, Mark by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mark.Stolz-at-st-systems-dot-com>
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> Hi All!
>
> I have been contemplating building a TSG and was wondering something.  If
> you used a 120 volt to 12 volt transformer(like a doorbell transformer) to
> the ignition coil, wouldn't the coil be operating synchronously with the
> mains frequency?  I don't know so I thought I would ask.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Stolz
> Houston, TX
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