Re: bridged ignition coils

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>


They work just fine.. bear in mind that there's a lot of inductance in the 
typical ignition coil.  You could probably also de-core the coils (run them 
as an air core transformer.

There's some circuit parameters on my website at:
http://home.earthlink-dot-net/~jimlux/hv/igncoil.htm

At 07:34 AM 5/1/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
>
>I am enquiring as to the possibility of driving a couple of ignition coils 
>off an H-bridge
>with  LT inputs in anti-parallel and the HT outputs in series
>so that the total HT voltage is doubled.
>Can this be done, and is it a good technique -or don't ignition coils work 
>so well in this configuration?