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Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:19:30 -0600
From: Bob White <rlwhite@comcast.net>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Magnetic tranfer
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Hi Ernest,

The magnetic flux will stay in the loop formed by those thin metal
plates.  You shouldn't see much effect from the bolts going through the
holes in the ends.

I believe these coils are bolted to a steel bracket with steel bolts in
the auto application.

Bob W.

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:56:18 -0400
Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> I spent the evening laying out my firewall forward.  I was going to wait 
> till everything aft of the firewall was complete, but I've got to get 
> the general layout settled so that I know where the hoses and wires are 
> going to pass through.
> 
> Anyway, I'm using the LS1 coils, and plan to mount them on the engine 
> below the spark plug as several other have demonstrated...strung 
> together with 1/4" all-thread and spaced with some 3/8" aluminum tube.  
> But then I started to looking at what I'll be running that all-thread 
> through, a bundle of thin metal plates that is supposed to keep the 
> electrical energy concentrated within the coil.  What will be the effect 
> of running a steel rod through them?  Will it connect them all 
> electrically?  Am I being goofy?  Inquiring minds want to know.
> 
> I got my degree, but I never really ever got a handle on how those 
> magnetic fields work.  I can't even remember the proper names for all 
> the parts.
> 

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