Re: Car Ignition Failures

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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 Scot,

It's a  6" running in the 250-300KHz area, with 12/120 NST power.

David E Weiss


 > Hmmmm...
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 > 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.
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 > 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....
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 > yours just may be doing the same as mine to "computers"...
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 > Scot D
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