A possible TSG controller

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Hi all, 
  The recent interest in the TSG got me thinking(run for the hills!!).   I have
a Dayton model 4X796E motor speed control meant for AC/DC motors.  Just for
fun, I hooked it up to an Accel car coil I had laying around with a 2uF cap in
series.  I had no idea if it would work or go up in smoke, but just had to try
it. 
  It seems to work.  I could not use the whole range of the controller, and I
have no idea if it works to change the phase at all, but thought I'd mention
it.  I also don't know if it would work indefinitely.  I only played with it
for about ten minutes or so. 
    If nothing else, it could possibly be used for a mini coil whose primary
cap is charged by a car coil.  I will see about winding a baby coil and testing
it out, but don't know how quickly I'll get to it.  My first coil ever was
powered by a car coil and I used a normally closed relay wired as a buzzer to
run the coil.  It worked but I was never successful in preventing the erosion
of the contact points and eventually ditched it.  This may be a good
alternative to that concept.  Who knows?  All I do know at present is that I
had to make no alterations to the device and had it hooked up in about two
minutes. 
Mike