spark plug wires
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RE: spark plug wires
Have you ever been unfortunate enough to be messing with the ignition system and get yourself grounded while holding, handling or working around those wires??? If you get that shock it'll feel like it knocked your dick in the dirt. There's a few amps in that punch. It would be interesting to know what the amperage is. Anyway, if that electrical pulse is strong enough to make you run the 100 in 3 seconds then it shouldn't take enough away from the plug to really make a difference.
Road Warrior
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RE: spark plug wires
But then again...you don't see them on any high performance racing machines either...not saying that we ride high performance racing machines...but I'm not about to add parts or weight to my bike that hurt or don't help performance and / or function either.
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Road Captain
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RE: spark plug wires
I think ignition coils generate LOTS of volts butonly at VERY low current. I would be interested in learning how these lighted wires work too (not because I like them, just curious), because I alwaysjust assumedthey were hooked into 12V somewhere and the ignition was just used as a trigger.
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RE: spark plug wires
Aren't those type of wires just a clear jacket that allows you to see the spark going through them?
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Road Warrior
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RE: spark plug wires
The wires don't actually carry a spark. Spark only occurs where there is a gap...like at the plug.
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RE: spark plug wires
Ain't electricity cool? It's still described as a phenomenon by quite a few people. It does such weird things that it doesn't really make sense half the time. Just like the spark on the gap and not visible through a clear wire cover. The strangest thing about the last two observations is this, if you can see the spark plug wire bare and doing it's thing you can't actually see that spark. It has to have that gap to make it's self visible to do it's job there in the jug. But here's the really weird part. Electricity does not go through a wire, it races along at an atomic level on the outside of the wire not through the inside. So, really, you would think that it could be seen, but then there's that phenomenon problem.
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