RE: Primary to primary sparking?

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Original poster: "Randy & Lori" <rburney6-at-comcast-dot-net> 

I had the same problem, but just put some heat-shrink on my connector
and the problem was gone.

Randy

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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:36 PM
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Subject: Primary to primary sparking?

Original poster: Chris Roberts <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>


Hi everyone,

I just got the coil out to do some pictures, along with trying it out
without a breakout point at the top. It seems to not like that, seeing
as
it had plenty of racing sparks, primary to secondary flashovers, and
other
problems. I guess it is a result of a higher breakout voltage? Anyways,
during one of these pictures, the coil flashed brightly with a huge mean

sounding spark. I shut it down and took a look. The spark seemed to
occur
between the primary tap and the next outside winding, seeing as that's
where the scorch marks are. So why would the coil want to do that?
Shouldn't the tap and the primary be at the same polarity? Even if they
were, wouldn't it be easier to have the current go around one more turn
instead of blasting through the air? Whenever I fix this thing from
sparking in one spot it starts in another... except for all off the top.
Is
that so hard for it to do? Oh well, it at least made the ! photo look
that
much better! =D

<http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/P1010077.JPG>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/
P1010077.JPG


-Chris