With those mags i doubt if less than one tenth of the power gets to the
plugs. I would suspect the 45 amps is arrived at in some off the wall way
that has nothing to do with the actual current at the plug. To start off
with 3 megawatts is over 4000 hp. so even at a 10% duty cycle how would you
drive this thing with the gear on the end of the shaft. Think about the
split pin holding the gear on the shaft and then tell me how much power you
are going get through it. Looking in a MSD catalog they list the pro mag 44
at 1.2 amps at 45k volts as a max output on the seconary. Sometime with the
wild aftermarket claims you need to do a common sense look at what they are
saying.. they are claiming 1000 mJ of power at the plug possible. I can tell
you that less than 70 mJ will fire over 1400 hp on a V-8.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe & Lynne Lance [mailto:jolylance@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:55 PM
> To: Dave Dahlgren; wester6935@comcast.net; Keith Turk; DrMayf; Bryan
> Savage; List Land Speed
> Subject: Re: Laser Ignition / cam profiles
>
>
> Dave;
> Don't know what kind of dielectric would be needed for 80k volts, but they
> must be much higher than 30k volts if the magnetos are pumping
> out 45 amps.
> Even if there are substantial losses along the way, the instantaneous peak
> power pulse at the spark plug is still a big number.
>
> Lance
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
> Subject: RE: Laser Ignition / cam profiles
>
>
> > What would you suggest for a dielectric for 80k volts that is
> only around
> > 3/16 thick. Them plug wells in a hemi are not all that big so air won't
> help
> > much..
> > Dave
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