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Re: can you use spark plug wires??
Subject: Re: can you use spark plug wires??
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 04:30:06 -0500
From: "Brad McPeak" <bmcpeak-at-gte-dot-net>
To: <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>, "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Hello List Members,
Spark Plug wire with a solid copper core can be purchased by the roll
from
JC WHITNEY for a pretty decent price. It is heavily insulated.
Brad McPeak
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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> Subject: Re: can you use spark plug wires??
> Date: Saturday, May 03, 1997 11:51 PM
>
> Subject: Re: can you use spark plug wires??
> Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 16:38:08 -0700
> From: David Trimmell <dwt-at-efn-dot-org>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> References:
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>
> Hello William,
>
> " it dawned on me that
> typical
> automotive spark plug wire is a carbon core with 30KV insulation around
> it.
> It is designed to suppress all sorts of stuff yet pass a decent
> current. It
> seems to me that the neon to capacitor connections could be made with
> this
> wire, with the following benefits:
>
> 1. protection of the neon(s)
> 2. RF suppression for 60HZ line
> 3. protection of the user due to good HV insulation
> 4. cheap
> 5. no inductors to build"
>
> The resistance of the spark plug wires would be way to high, and they
> are not designed to handle much current, a few miliamps at most.
>
> David Trimmell