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Re: What coil?

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Believe it or not, there is such a thing as "coil tuning" for capacitive discharge ignitions having to do with getting inductance right for any specific application.

I personally have seen some coils work better than the what was considered supposedly the best available. "BEST" is a subjective term.
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Re: What coil?

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Walter R. Malik wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:37 am Believe it or not, there is such a thing as "coil tuning" for capacitive discharge ignitions having to do with getting inductance right for any specific application.

I personally have seen some coils work better than the what was considered supposedly the best available. "BEST" is a subjective term.

There was a nice old article that went into coils terms/details, basically said you gotta track test a few diff types to be sure. Also some brands use to say one coil was for upper RPMs and another coil they had for below a certain RPM range. I think some just prefer to sell you the most expensive coil they have.
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Well finally got around to making a short vid showing the two FAKE coils I picked up. https://youtu.be/FYxjbCDbKtc
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