At 04:58 PM 11/14/2003, David Brodbeck wrote:

>of the more compact methods is to put the contacts inside a sealed chamber
>which is evacuated to a high vaccuum.  No air means nothing to ionize
>to carry the arc current.

Ah ha!  And you don't get a metal arc?  Are the contacts tungsten or some such?

But getting back to IC ignition, how much of that is arc?  Does it really
become the low-resistance point of the system?

d

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