Inductive Pickup Circuit

[Lfaustini at aol.com]

In a message dated 95-10-15 19:45:23 EDT, you write:

>Ripping apart the timing light and following the circuit
>around concluded that the pulses from the pickup are
>fed into a gate of an SCR (through a 100 ohm resistor,
>and 0.002 micro cap to ground). 



   If there was only 100 milivolts out of the inductive-pickup-coil you would
never forward bias (and hence turn on) the SCR. Did you have the coil
connected drectly up to the 50-ohm imput of your scope? This could give you a
deceptive "feel" for howmuch voltage you will see across the picup. 

    ---Lou