Tim design
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Uses a battery and a simple oscillator to initiate the magneto coil, like a low voltage stun gun, (stun guns are banned over here).
Tim design
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Re: Tim design
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I have done some further reading up on small engine theory. The pulse in the magneto is generated not by the duration of the pulse from the pulsing circuit and battery, but by the collapsing of that pulse. There are two coils of wire in the magneto, one has few turns of wire and the other has many turns. When the pulse going into the small coil stops then the magnetic field in the magneto collapses and there is a spike of high voltage electricity which is made greater by the second coil in the magneto and 20 - 25 KV is generated which we see as a spark. The identical thing happens weather the magnetic field is generated by the magnets in the flywheel or a simple oscillator. So that means that the electrical version will put out the same spark as the mechanical version, we will just be able to increase the pulses per second, by changing the value of a capacitor.
