ION-related IGN Comments & Coil Quest

[Dan Zorde]

What if you get one of these big Mallory coils that you can pull apart to 
change the oil in.  Is there then any way you can take the windings coming to 
the common terminals and seperate them, you could then add your own 4th 
terminal ?

Dan	dzorde at soanar.com.au

On Thursday, 28 May, 1998 7:05 AM, garfield at pilgrimhouse.com 
[SMTP:garfield at pilgrimhouse.com] wrote:
> Hey Maties.
HEY, I'll ask all them bloaks on diy_efi if ANYONE has ever
> seen a so-called 4-terminal stock auto IGN coil? What I mean by that is,
> consider the normal IGN coils we're all used to. They're basically a
> 3-terminal device; one terminal is the HV output (the "top" of the
> secondary, if you will), and then there's a "shared/common" connection
> for both primary and the other side of the secondary, and then the third
> terminal, which is for the primary feed. So you essentially have what we
> used to call an auto-transformer, or a transformer with a common
> connection for both primary and secondary.
>
>
> Gar