Spark Temperature Enhancement by Adding a Parallel Capacitor in High Voltage Circuit

✍ Scribed by M. Pavlov; S. Djurović; R. Kobilarov; B. Vujičić

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-8025
• DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.2150300405

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Temperature of sparks produced by automotive ignition systems have been measured spectro‐scopically. It is shown that by adding a capacitor of the order of 10 to 100 pF, temperature of the arc phase of a spark can be considerably increased.