10 Nov
2007
10 Nov
'07
4:43 a.m.
On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:04 PM, 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.
Indeed, my last car had TWO coils per plug and no distributor.
Buying a set of spark plug wires for that thing was...painful.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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