At 12:59 AM 3/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On the alternator side of the coil, there's a connexion for a little
>blue plastic thingamajig that is grounded to the inside of the wing
>and wired separately to the coil. Small (1.5") blue canister-like
>thing, no obvious inscription on it. What is this?
>
Been a long time since I spent any time under a 70's vintage car but I THINK
it's a noise suppressor. Designed to use capacitance to suppress ignition
noise in your radio.
>Oh, and another question ...
>
>And ... what is an induction heater? Do I have one? What does it
>do? (Please don't tell me it's a fancy word for the car's heater.)
Heater that uses hysteresis of an alternating current in a laminated iron
core. Probably not. Big ones melt iron in smelters, little ones expand
bearing races for fitting to shafts.
Cheers, eh!
___ \______ Ross MacPherson
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1947 MG-TC 3528 1966 MGB-GT
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