[T3] B brain

[Mark Reno]

Yah I thought about buying a new coil to see if that would do the trick.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:23 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 10 Jun 2018 at 0:31, Dave Hall wrote:
>
> > Why would he only see a small spark? Doesn't that suggest a ignition
> problem?
>
> I wondered about that, too, but it's really hard to know what to
> expect when looking at what a spark looks like out in the air. I
> remember being disappointed when I first did this test, many years
> ago. Since then, I've come to understand that the spark color depends
> on what's in the air, and the perceived intensity depends on your
> expectations and the gap.
>
> For me, the only real test is to use a timing light with an inductive
> pickup. If that triggers, it means that something jumped the gap, and
> that's enough. It's binary, there's either a spark on no spark,
> there's nothing in between.
>
> That's not to say that there can't be a difference between sparks
> produced by different systems, but with a given system, there's
> either a spark, or no spark. For example, I do a lot of repairs on
> Delta Mark 10 Capacitive Discharge Ignitions. With a flip of a switch
> on my tabletop test setup I can change from CDI to standard Kettering
> ignition. I can hear a difference, I can see a difference on an
> oscilloscope, I can even see a small difference in the spark, but
> when I'm testing, there's either a spark or no spark. I never get a
> "weak" spark that needs my attention to make it better.
>
> Well, maybe I should qualify that a bit: There are certainly times
> when some part is failing and we get a spark sometimes and no spark
> sometimes. That's what we call a "miss", and it can be difficult to
> track down the cause.
>
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