Ok somebody here explain to me what wasted spark is. I thought wasted spark
meant that the plug fired an additional time during the exhaust stroke. It
was explained to me by a manufacturer's rep (the large company cobbling up
all the small high performance companies enuff said) today that wasted spark
meant an additional spark but traveling in the wrong direction. He said
normal spark direction was from the electrode to ground and that in wasted
spark it travels ground to electrode and that was hard on the ignition
system. I did not bother to waste my time with this uneducated person and
thanked him and went on my way looking at the other manufacturers. For
those that don't know I will explain hopefully without getting to technical.
Regardless of what Benjamin Franklin and everyone else might have told you
in a DC voltage system the voltage always flows from the Negative(-) side to
the Positive(+) side. The spark plug electrode being positive charge has
less electrons. The ground side of the plug has a negative charge(an
abundance of electrons). The electrons are attracted to the positive side
The path of voltage flow is always from the ground to the electrode. Ask me
what this has to do with LSR and I would just shrug my shoulders cause like
Glen waiting to hear how today turned out at Maxton.
Bill
Oh and by the way lightning does go from the ground up for the same reason.
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