Date:         Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:52:54 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Gap of Sparks
Comments: To: "G.M.Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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At 12:46 PM 2/15/2003, G.M.Bulley wrote:
>A lightening bolt can jump several MILES in a hundredth of a second. The
>distance of .6mm versus .4mm versus 1mm make not a lick of difference in
>WHEN the spark fires. Okay, theoretically, there is a difference but
>there is no device, and hardly a calculation that could measure the
>difference in time that light (the speed a spark jumps) takes to travel
>.6mm versus .8mm. the difference is infinitesimal, nearly nil.

It's the rise time of the coil voltage that creates the difference, not the
distance the spark travels between the plug electrodes.  But I agree it's a
very small difference.

d


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