Multispark stuff and other thoughts

[Frank Parker]

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Zublin, Bryan (SD-MS) wrote:

> 
> >How many sparks per event would depend upon the coil
> >charge and discharge time, but we all want to charge with real high
> >currents anyway....  Just some thoughts on the subject.
> 
> The MSD system is capacitive discharge.  For this type, the limiting factors 
> are how fast you can charge up the main capacitor (example: 1 uF, 400 V) and 
> how long it takes to discharge in the coil.
> 
> Bryan Zublin
> bzublin at gi.com
> 
I just did a study on Sun distb machine with high speed scope and found
recycle time between sparks of MSD is 750 usec and conversion on 8 cyl
setup from multiple spark to single spark occured at 2400 rpm.

Frank PArker