The ignition coils in your car provide the high voltage electrical current that allows your spark plug to create its spark. These parts are humble looking, and they make use of relatively simple ...

In fact, it happened to our lightly modified '07 Audi A4 2.0T. While the car would cruise normally, it would jerk under load. After changing the plugs, only to find the same symptoms, we knew what the ...

It's easy to forget about maintenance intervals, even for car people like us. Believe it or not, non-moving parts do wear. Maybe not as fast as moving parts (serpentine belts, brake rotors, and so on) ...

High-voltage experimenters have been using automotive ignition coils to generate impressive sparks in the home lab for decades, and why not? They’re cheap, easily obtainable, and at the end of the day ...

The ignition coil converts the vehicle’s 12 volts to the more than 10,000 volts required to produce an effective spark in the spark plugs, which in turn ignite the air-fuel mixture in an engine’s ...

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The ignition control module is a crucial component of a vehicle's ignition system. It is a control unit responsible for regulating the ignition timing and generating sparks to ignite the fuel-air ...

The Mopar electronic ignition system introduced in 1972 was cutting edge in its day. While everyone else was using the ancient points-type ignitions, Chrysler scooped 'em all with the electronic unit.

I have had to replace a number of the ignition coils on my VZ Commodore wagon over the last six months. The “check power train” warning alert activates and the car starts running roughly. Six months ...

F. R. HAIGH has recently compared the relative advantages of magneto and coil ignition used for generating the explosions which occur in motor-car engines (Students' Quart. J. Inst. Elec. Eng., Dec.).

DENSO Corp. and Hanshin Electric Co. Ltd. have formed Wuxi DENSO Hanshin Automotive Products Co., Ltd. In Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China, to produce automobile ignition coils. The joint venture will be ...