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Re: What CAUSES the coil primary to turn on?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 4/2/2001

Jim,

Here is what I can offer. The system you describe is very much like the HEI system GM invented. In the end, the driver transistor needs a square pulse on the base/gate that tells it when to turn on and when to turn off with enough time for dwell in betw... Login to read more.