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Subject:Re: Arduino and Vanagons
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:54:38 -0500

At 02:01 PM 11/14/2013, Tom Carchrae wrote:
>Brett; in terms of those spikes - it would be interesting to know how
>critical those spikes are for good operation.  Namely, it would be good to
>check a few profiles to ensure that these spikes are normal and not "static
>noise" from ancient circuits.

It doesn't matter to the project, but the spike behavior of the coil
primary circuit is perfectly normal and desired behavior.  Without it
the secondary wouldn't develop proper voltage.

Yrs,
d