Re: Car Ignition Failures

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

Cars use much of the same protection that military aircraft do.  I would 
"hope" the planes would be tested "properly", where in the case of this car 
model, somebody apparently screwed-up...  I would like to think that a 
$35,000,000  F-18 Super Hornet with ECM, Stealth, EMP hardening, Rad 
hardening, ect...  Would not be taken out buy a Tesla coil.  But I wonder 
if it has "really" been "tested"...

We know McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis used Tesla coils for testing 
aircraft since someone was killed by one there :-((((

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/Deaths.txt

I wonder if the "Tesla coil EMI testing" business is about to take off 
again!!  All one would need is a coil and a driveway big enough to park an 
F-18 ;-))

In general, Tesla coils are very "quiet" RF wise.  I would think the car 
had some glaring weakness to some specific radio frequency.  They really do 
stick them in big chambers and throw the full spectrum of RF at cars now 
days...  Cell phones were the only recent worry...

But all it takes is one bad ECO....

Cheers,

         Terry


At 07:33 PM 7/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>... Air National Guard approach pattern. I fear that their attitude about 
>>RFI, EMI, or EMP-induced stall-out would be
>
>>decidedly unfriendly.
>         Mil electronics is hardened to higher levels than
>
>         Boom Boxes and most auto ignitions...
>
>--
>         best
>         dwp