Re: Phelon coils Mercury

[legendre]

quote JasonH:

Lets separate fact from theory.

Fact: Many people have done conversion with great majority suceeding.
Fact:mercuryman narrowed his issue down to laminate. Don’t think anyone could argue that.
Fact:Without getting into depths of electrical engineering theory, we know that layered laminates are insulated and all by design.

Sounds about right.

quote :

With that said, many successes grinding or filing center leg. What I am willing to bet is that very few if any modifying phelon removed rivets and seperated layers. There is the obvious difference and detirmining factor in my view.

I don’t recall him offering much detail on how many lams he separated. Did he break the stack into two or three pieces, or into all of its constituent layers?

If the latter, I’d think that it +could+ be difficult to re-assemble them with the same alignment & intimacy as the original assembly – and much more so, if they were re-assembled out of (original) order.

Per my understanding – as the distances between the laminations increase, the ‘focusing’ effect of the core decreases, and with it, the stored energy and the spark power. As you point out, there’s not much else to blame for this, save some other assembly / setup error that’s been overlooked.