Ignition only (bwa-ha-haaaaa...!)

Sat Nov 11 15:35:21 GMT 2000

-> I'm thinking the SAE probably has reams of stuff about spark systems
-> - with pictures? Anyone see any nice references they'd like to share?

 naca.larc.nasa.gov; the dollars of the American taxpayer doing
something useful, for a change.  Also lots of stuff on combustion, fuel
injection, and so forth.  And for those with a letch for the exotic,
lots of declassified Cold War goodies; anyone up for boron-magnesium
slurry fuels?  How about half a dozen papers on how to make your own
mass air meters, or measurement of combustion pressure?  How about
algorithms for a MAP system with AFR trimmed by exhaust back pressure?
Dozens - literally - of papers on supercharger design and construction.
Fuel chemistry.  And, yes, ignition...

 That site was like a peek at the Promised Land; the top of my modem
took on a definite concave curve, and I filled half of a 10Gb drive.  I
wanted to make sure I got everything useful before some bureaucrat
decided it was a waste of money and pulled the plug.

 Oh, yeah, they wasted a bunch of space on airplanes and junk like that,
too...  but they have 56 papers on the design of airships!  And papers
by people like Werner Heisenberg and Charles P. Steinmetz, and some of
the original papers that people like Rogowski, Schwitzer, and Taylor
built upon to eventually become the Usual Sources for engine design,
and...

 A sample of the warez at naca.larc.nasa.gov... (sorry for the HTML...)

<A HREF="#naca-report-179">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-report-179.pdf">
The effect of electrode temperature on the sparking voltage of short
spark gaps
 </A>Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 179, 1924, pp. 10.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-report-202">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-202.pdf">
The sparking voltage of spark plugs
<br></A></B>Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 202, 1925, pp. 16.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-241">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-241.pdf">
Electrical characteristics of spark generators for automotive ignition
<br></A></B>Brode, R B; Randolph, D W; Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 241, 1927, pp. 20.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-374">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-374.pdf">
The automotive ignition coil
<BR></A></B>Darnell, T H,
NACA Report 374, 1932, pp. 20.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-1287">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-1287.pdf">
Spark ignition of flowing gases
</A></B>Clyde C. Swett, Jr.,
NACA Report 1287, Jan 1956, pp. 18.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-359">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-359.pdf">
An investigation of the effectiveness of ignition sparks
<BR></A></B>Peters, Melville F; Summerville, Wayne L,
NACA Report 359, 1931, pp. 13.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-tn-651">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-tn-651.pdf">
Effect of spark-timing regularity on the knock of engine performance
 </A>Biermann, Arnold E,
NACA TN-651, May 1938, pp. 8.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-report-57">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-57.pdf">The subsidiary gap as a means for improving
ignition
<br></A></B>Gorton, W S,
NACA Report 57, 1920, pp. 14.<P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-123">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-123.pdf">
Simplified theory of the magneto
<br></A></B>Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 123, 1923, pp. 17.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-tn-32">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-tn-32.pdf">
Causes of cracking of ignition cable
<br></A></B>F. B. Silsbee,
NACA TN 32, Feb 1921, pp. 17.<P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-58">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-58.pdf">
Characteristics of high-tension magnetos
<br></A></B>Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 58, 1920, pp. 22.<P>

<A HREF="#naca-tn-603">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-tn-603.pdf">
A preliminary study of flame propagation in a spark-ignition engine
 </A>Rothrock, A M; Spencer, R C,
NACA TN-603, June 1937, pp. 31.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-report-187">Abstract </A>&nbsp;<B>
<A HREF="naca-report-187.pdf">
Flame speed and spark intensity
<br></A></B>Randolph, D W; Silsbee, F B,
NACA Report 187, 1925, pp. 14.</A><P>

<A HREF="#naca-report-486">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-report-486.pdf">
Infrared radiation from explosions in a spark-ignition engine
 </A>Marvin, Charles F, Jr; Caldwell, Frank R; Steele, Sydney,
NACA Report 486, 1935, pp. 12.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-report-727">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-report-727.pdf">
A study by high-speed photography of combustion and knock in a
spark-ignition engine
 </A>Miller, Cearcy D,
NACA Report 727, 1942, pp. 22.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-report-704">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-report-704.pdf">
A high-speed motion-picture study of normal combustion, knock and
preignition in a spark-ignition engines
 </A>Rothrock, A M; Spencer, R C; Miller, Cearcy D,
NACA Report 704, 1941, pp. 16.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-tn-3887">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-tn-3887.pdf">
Effect of concentration on ignition delays for various fuel-oxygen-
nitrogen mixtures at elevated temperatures
</A>Anagnostou, E; Brokaw, R S; Butler, J N,
NACA TN-3887, December 1956, pp. 36.</A>

<A HREF="#naca-wr-e-267">Abstract </A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="naca-wr-e-267.pdf">
The effect of high-resistance ignition cable on the erosion of
spark-plug electrodes
 </A>Rodgers, Franklin A,
NACA WR-E-267 NACA-MR-E5I21, September 1945, pp. 7.</A>

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== see / lately it occurs to me / what a long, strange trip it's been ==
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