Something I've wondered about for a while... I've been running Nology Hotwires for around a year. Understanding the principles of how a capacitor works, there is a small time, if only nano seconds to charge the capacitor after it releases each charge. Here's my question. If timing is advanced 10 degrees on a engine, could this charge delay be long enough to negate an advance in timing?




Modified by AFAccord at 10:53 AM 12/13/2005

 

Well, the delay in terms of time, depends on the capacitance of the wires, which I don't know what they are. Maybe you can fill in that part?

But at 6000 rpm, your crankshaft is going 36 degrees per milli-second.
Or 0.036 degrees per micro-second. Or 0.000036 degree per nano-second...

I bet it takes longer than a few nano-seconds to charge up the wire. After all, light only travels about a foot per nano-second.

 

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So do you suppose it's possible that the wires could be negating the full effectiveness of the advanced timing?

 

No. But actually, I thought of something else. When you check timing with a timing light, the light flashes with the spark, so this delay (however small) is already accounted for.