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Posted by souNdguy on June 22, 2006 at 11:04:30 from (12.65.132.22):
In Reply to: Re: Cub ground posted by John T on June 22, 2006 at 08:59:46:
Electron current flow will be from negative to positive ( conventional current flow .. also called hole current.. flows positive to negative). Now.. that said.. If you have a positive ground tractor, the spark is going to jump from the negative electrode tip, to the positive strap. That's where part of the efficiency comes in. Now.. as for the wireing the coil incorrectly.. that is.. reverse the polarity of the charge system... ( charge system is still positive ground, but the coil is hooked up backwards ).. here is the condition... The secondary coil is hooked up in 2 places. 1 place is the high tension lead out to the spark plug wire/distrib cap... the other lead is hooked to one side of the primary.. Ideally, for correct phasing, it will be hooked to the side of the primary that is common with the incoming power/primary wire... However.. if yuo have the coil backwards.. you actually have the secondary connected to the outgoing side of the primary coil.. thus, spark current must pass thru the primary coil as well. Even though it is only DC 1+ ohms or so in the primary.. you have to look at impeadance since it isn't a steady state circuit, and you have to look at inductance of the primary.. etc. As was stated... the coil works both ways.. it is just more efficient to use it in the correct polarity. The spark is going to jump from negative to positive.. so, battery ground polarity will determine if the arc jumps from the tip to the strap, or from the stap to the tip. So.. it's really a 2-part issue... ground polarity controlling direction of spark jump, and coil orientation controlling spark intensity... etc. Spark gap size, and compression ratio will determina at what high voltage level the discharge occours at. Close gaps and low compression make for an easy gap to jump... thus lower KV needed to jump.... wide gaps and higher compression make for harder gap to jump.. thus the voltage builds up to a higher potential before arcing. To illustrate this, a spark plug, help in the open air may produce a nice blue spark.. but in the engine with a 6:1 compression ratio.. that may actually be an orange spark, if the coil is alread discharging at full potential. In the old days, they made a product called a spark intensifier.. it was noting more than an inline adjustable spark gap that added a little gap.. thus letting high voltage build up to a higher potential before jumping. Similarly.. they made a device that will let a fouled plug fire.. uses same principal. I've seen farmers that had a foule dplug that was missing, pull the spark plug boot off and leave the metal contact about 3/16 an inch away from the spark plug tip so that it would arc over, and that cylinder would then start fireing.. due to the increased potential being able to jump the fouled gap.. Some engine anylizers will provide kv info, and you can also get KV reading volt meters, and even cheaper ones that are used to measure electric fences... etc. Soundguy
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