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Dying spark field "chopped" off by ionization at plug
Posted to the Waveform Library on 9/29/2003

Here the red line shows (more or less) what happens to the black line when the latter is "shorted out" by ionization at the plug. The first pulse has to start ionization and takes a large voltage. Once the gap is ionized, the "shorting" takes place at a pretty...