TEC

[Jim Pearl]

It looks like a good system - until you take a look at their software 
prices! I was VERY close to buying one until I saw the thousand dollars 
worth of software I'd want to buy! Whew - almost as much as the rest of the 
system! Ouch!

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>From: 	Hadzic Muhammed[SMTP:3mh31 at qlink.queensu.ca]
Sent: 	Friday, March 29, 1996 1:07 PM
To: 	Utgarhoth at aol.com
Cc: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject: 	Re: TEC



On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 Utgarhoth at aol.com wrote:

> If I were them, I'd sue GM too.  I'm are currently using an Electromotive
> multi-coil ignition system on a '66 Coronet.  I happened to be in a GM 
dealer
> about a month ago, and I noticed the very same ignition system on a 
brand-new
> Aurora.  Looking further around the showroom, I came to the conclusion 
that
> GM must have bought the Electromotive ignition system.  Does anyone know 
if
> this was licensed or simply stolen from Electromotive?
>
>
>                                           --- R. Andrew Broadhurst
>
My two cents...

I've recently bought the TEC II system from Electromotive and part of
thier sales pitch was that GM licenced the design for the coils from
them.  They claimed that they had the patent rights on the coils.

Muhammed