On 12/03/2012 02:18 PM, Rowland Carson wrote:
> I'm concerned about whether "ordinary" screened aircraft cable will
> be OK for the high voltages (thousands of volts) that appear in
> ignition circuits.
We are not talking here about the HT-leads to the spark plugs, but about
the ignition kill wire.
> In my youth I was involved in the development of
> colour TV for UK transmission and so did some poking around in boxes
> that had 30kV lurking inside. I was impressed by the way such
> voltages could walk across things that I have previously regarded as
> insulators.
I'm sure you must have been impressed ;-), but the Rotax ignition kill
circuit is far from comparable to the 30kV of your colour TV's. It is
just low voltage.
Frans
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