Re: Lucas coils

[Paul Amaranth <amaranth@vela.acs.oakland.edu>]

This is getting *really* far afield, but the same trick of putting
a resistor in series and using a higher-than-rated voltage is used in 
driving stepping motors.

Why it works is not intuitively (or is that inductively?) obvious until
you drag out the theory.

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