A call to the electrical engineers of the list

[brads@mindspring.com (Brad Sheridan)]

  Yes, that is a dangerous idea. When you ground the coil, you are drawing
current through it, just like the stock ignition does to store energy in
the coil. Then when your limiter turns, off, it will be just like when the
ignition driver turns off, it will create a spark right then. Not good,
unless you like the idea of a spark occuring at some random angle with
respect to the crank. Besides, dont many of the cars already have rev
limiters? You will only be able to adjust it down, not up, if you already
have a limiter and try to put an adjustable one on there. 

Brad



At 07:30 AM 3/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I had been thinking (dangerous idea..)
>
>this could be used as an adjustable rev limiter too. Ditch the WOT part,
>and then use the circuit to ground the - sde of the coil at a given
>RPM... like a motorcycle kill switch?
>
>take care,
>
>Steve
>
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