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Date:         Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:12:09 EDT
Reply-To:     Scooter061@AOL.COM
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott De Santi <Scooter061@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Another coil fire
Comments: To: crystal@quicknet.com.au
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<< If the points are in the closed position, the circuit for the primary is
 complete, this means a current will be drawn thru the primary and the coil
 will heat. >>


Hey Volks,


    Gotta chime in here... hopefully one of the engineering types on the List
can clear this up.... Isn't a coil just a transformer with  X number of
windings on the input and  many, many X windings on the output?  And wouldn't
collapse and expansion of the electromagnetic field in the primary induce the
voltage in the secondary?  And lastly, in a steady state where DC is flowing
through the primary without being switched off and on, would there be ANY
current in the output?


Scott De Santi
86 Vanagon 2WD (The Wobbly Bus)
Anchorage, Alaska
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