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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
ReflectionsA BRIEF WORDBy C. H. WendelThe Reflector was most fortunate in recently acquiring a little book on the building of induction coils. Although few of our collectors have actually made spark coils, it is nevertheless, an interesting project. Simple coils, as used on low tension igniters are relatively simple, since only a single winding is used. This is usually of about No. 16 AWG magnet wire, wound over an iron core until it will read about 3 amperes when connected to a 6 volt battery. Short, fat coils will provide a better spark with less battery drain than a long, skinny coil. Thomas Edison found this out a century ago. Winding a high tension coil presents some very different problems from the simple coil. Two sets of windings are required-a few turns of No. 14 or No. 16 wire perhaps for the primary, and a great many turns of very fine wire, perhaps 36 gauge for the high v... 812 of 19016 characters shown.
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