Re: Car Ignition Failures

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Original poster: "BunnyKiller by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bunikllr-at-bellsouth-dot-net>



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>Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>
>
>Hi All,
>
>I forgot to mention this in She's Dead Captain.  I was able, before the 
>coil died, to kill the ignition on 2 cars driving by.  The first one 
>failed and came to a stop, and would not restart while the coil was 
>running.  I then shut down the coil and the car started.  I then fired the 
>coil again and it died again.  As I am not a car person, I can't tell you 
>the exact model, but I think it was a Ford.  Later I had another car just 
>like it die also while the coil was running and wouldn't start until I 
>turned the coil off.
>
>David E Weiss
>
Hmmmm...

how big is your coil???  ( frequency wise Im thinking  harmonics and the 
such)   most cars now-a-days use "computers" to keep track of spark, 
injection, and a mess of emmision control factors.  Just might be possible 
that the coil is outputting enuf wattage in a frequency range to harrass 
the ignition control of the computer.

My next door neighbors son is a "computer kinda guy"  has about 9 computers 
in various states of functionality   ( most of them with the cases 
off)  and when I run my coil ( the BIGPIG), it does all sorts of nasties to 
his systems...   reboots , shutdowns, error writes  just to name a few 
things he has fussed about....

yours just may be doing the same as mine to "computers"...


Scot D