Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!dss00 From: dss00@amdahl.UUCP (Deepak S. Sabnis) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: eliminating distributors Message-ID: <860@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 11:54:02 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.860 Posted: Fri Jan 4 11:54:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:04:34 EST References: <458@amdcad.UUCP> <475@amdcad.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 27 > > easy to drive a coil with 1,000v. Then the ignition coil would > > only need to step up by a factor of 12. > > And how is the 12 V supply from the battery to be stepped up to a 1000 V (without costing more than the reduction in cost of the ignition coil, if any). I hope you are not proposing that battery voltages of 1000 V be made standard. As a matter of fact my impression (from my earlier profession) is that the cost of all electromagnetic devices like coils and transformers have less to do with turns ratio and more to do with the (Volt*Ampere) product. The comments above are only to add to the factual accuracy of what Phil said; his original idea that distributors are a weak link and should be avoidable has merit and worthy of consideration by the auto engineers. While on the subject of improvements in autos, how about starting a discussion on electrical automobiles (including the hybrid variety which has a gas engine and an electrical motor to get best of the two worlds). -- Deepak S. Sabnis ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!dss00 (408) 746-6058 (Opinions expressed above are strictly my own :-| )