Yeah - a moped has rubber tires. An 18-wheeler has rubber tires. A
passenger jet airplane has ruber wheels. Do they have the same form and
function?
But it has RUBBER TIRES! It HAS to work!
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Boyle
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 06:36
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [TCML] car distributor as rotary gap
>
> My intuition predicts that there would be a continuous ring of plasma
> that would melt and burn up the distributor cap in about half
> a minute.
>
>
>
> On 14-04-18 09:17 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
> > On 4/17/14, 6:09 AM, Co60bishop wrote:
> >>
> >> I am confused by Jim's comment. The distributor definitely
> does make
> >> and break high voltage. The center of the distributor cap
> is one high
> >> voltage connection and then tie the outer spark plug wire
> connections
> >> together for the second connection. You can use a 4, 6, or
> 8 cylinder
> >> distributor and experiment with how many spark plug connections you
> >> use depending on the RPM of the motor spinning the rotor
> if you like.
> >> The distributor is designed to make and break upwards of 30KV.
> >>
> >
> > The pulse from the coil is very short (<1 ms) and occurs
> when the rotor
> > is near one of the spark plug terminals. By the time the rotor has
> > moved away from the terminal, the HV is long gone.
> >
> > At 6000 rpm, the distributor turns at 50 revs/second (20
> > milliseconds/rev). So on an 8 cylinder engine it takes about 2.5
> > milliseconds to move from one plug to the next.
> >
> >
> >
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