9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
5:04 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, but how common are LT contact breakers these days? Heck, most modenr
cars over here have a coil-per-plug (or at least a coil for every pair of
plugs, with a 'weated spark' occuring at a plug in a cylinder at the top
of the exhaust stroke), so no distributor at all.
That said, the workshop manaul I've just picked up (for a 1972 Rover P6)
refers to the component as the capacitor.
-tony
sounds wrong). But the only time you'll see
the word 'condenser' used is
in old books and in one old radio magazine that insistes on using the old
terms (including 'cylces per second' for 'hertz').
It is still in common usage to refer to the capacitor used in automotive
distributors