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That is interesting I've been trying to find out if you can feed a pole pig with a 60 Hertz d/c Square wave with adjustable duty cycle or in other words a pwm. Which would think that it would work for current limiting or?? On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 1:46 PM jimlux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm getting ready to start experimenting with triggered spark gaps for a > TC - all the timing benefits of a rotary gap, but without spinning > blades of death. > > What I'd love to find, and I'm hoping the TCML hive-mind can help, is an > off the shelf "electronic ignition" module - not capacitive discharge, > but something that basically is the "points replacement" that I can > drive with an optical link (for HV isolation). > > The idea is to use a 12V battery, an electronic ignition, and a > conventional ignition coil as a robust trigger pulse generator for the > spark gap. > > Something fancy like the MSD, which generates multiple sparks, isn't > what I want.. I want just the one pulse into the coil. > > Back in the day, there were "points replacement" modules - maybe > something I can order as part of a HEI? > (after all there's the famous GMHEICSLR contest, which used the *coil* > of a HEI as the basis for a tesla coil of sorts) > > Cheap is good. The ignition coils are $12 - I'm not wild about spending > $100 on what is basically a HV transistor and some biasing resistors and > capacitors. > > (No, I don't want to build one from scratch.. been there, done that) > > _______________________________________________ > Tesla mailing list > Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla > _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla