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- From: leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:47:18 GMT
- Subject: Re: The Gasaver: what's the deal
- Message-ID: <53110039@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Singapore
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- In rec.autos.tech, harling@miki.pictel.com (Dan Harling) writes:
-
- |In article <53110037@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com> leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG) writes:
- |>Sounds like "Cheetah 911". Costs S$140 here (approx US$88). Claims you can
- |>save 10% fuel, increase power, lower engine operating temp (hmm, starting to
- |>sound fishy) etc...
- |>
- |>they had a demo setup with 2 spark plugs, with a wimpy spark from the "normal"
- |>plug, and a strong sizzling spark from the "assisted" one. The sales guy
- |>couldn't give any tech details but it looks like some capacitive circuit in
- |>this gizmo. He also refused to let me look at the insides of his demo box.
- |>I wonder why.
- |
- |It could be a number of things. It could be a capacitive circuit, or
- |it could even be a wire with a wide gap in it, to produce higher peak
- |voltages. MSD's ignition box fires several sparks in succession,
- |instead of one big one.
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- Nope, not the plug - I made them swap the wire. I suspected a capacitive
- circuit, yes, now that you mention MSD, the strong spark was more of a series
- of sparks, hence the "sizzling" effect.
-
- lawrence
-
- |____________________________________________________________________________
- |Daniel A. Harling (harling@pictel.com)
- |PictureTel Corp. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of
- |Peabody, MA 01960 PictureTel, but they ought to be!
-