Flame thrower tinkering

[TrailTamer]

I do have several vids, can we host those here?

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I'm curious, is there any advantage to a old school "canister" style coil versus say an LS coil?

As for 6 volts, I was thinking of running everything off of 12 volts with a voltage reducer to drop from 18 volts to 12ish volts.

Slightly less likely to fry coils, fuel pumps and relays that way and everything is on the same voltage.

Or are you saying to run a 6 volt coil on 12 volts so you get a hotter spark than out of a 12 volt coil on 12 volts?

Aaron Z

what he's talking about are rattler coils, so they just make sparks continuous without additional components
but they're far too antique to be 'off the shelf'

kinda cool they used to make plans to make a chronograph with one
you'd have a couple rails you'd shoot along
you'd tune the coil by ear to a known frequency
you'd run paper tape along the rails

bullet would make the gap between the rails narrower, so the arc would jump through the tape and bullet
you measure the scorch marks in the paper and do the math against the frequency the coil was set to and you'd have your velocity

 

[plym49.2]

what he's talking about are rattler coils, so they just make sparks continuous without additional components
but they're far too antique to be 'off the shelf'

The Model T resto firms sell repros.

 

[Ksand]

I need to order some parts