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joecar · 11-30-2006, 09:23 PM

Ok...

What do you mean when you say you tested near a radio...?
Do you mean you ran these wires on your engine and no EMI was heard on your radio...?

When looking to see which wires to use, do not look for low resistance, but look for spirally wound metal core (which will have low resistance); the idea is that the spiral wound conductor will produce pretty much zero magnetic field outside the spiral (provided the spiral is tightly wound); this means there will be zero losses due to electromagetic induction to nearby metal objects (i.e. no energy is used to drive currents induced externally); so all this energy is available for spark.

11-30-2006, 09:23 PM	#23
joecar TECH Fanatic Trader Rating: 0 Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: SoCal Posts: 1,699	Ok... What do you mean when you say you tested near a radio...? Do you mean you ran these wires on your engine and no EMI was heard on your radio...? When looking to see which wires to use, do not look for low resistance, but look for spirally wound metal core (which will have low resistance); the idea is that the spiral wound conductor will produce pretty much zero magnetic field outside the spiral (provided the spiral is tightly wound); this means there will be zero losses due to electromagetic induction to nearby metal objects (i.e. no energy is used to drive currents induced externally); so all this energy is available for spark. Last edited by joecar; 12-01-2006 at 02:04 PM..