Come on chaps - any fool knows that electricity does not flow down, it
floats up. Haven't you seen it escaping just before your wiring harness
begins to burn?
At 12:24 PM 2/17/01 -0700, Larry Hoy wrote:
>Lawrie Alexander wrote:
>
> >A few years ago, I e-mailed another list to inquire if anyone knew why coils
> >were so often mounted upside-down. Someone with an electrical engineering
> >background replied that coils were oil-filled in order to provide cooling
> >and that the upside-down orientation was intended to ensure that there was
> >always oil around the contact end of the coil which, he said, was where most
> >of the internal heat was generated. Made sense to me (and I've only once
> >encountered a coil that leaked).
>
>Wrongo, oh great one, I thought everyone knew the coil mounts in a
>downward postition so the electricty will flow out better ...
>I'm ashamed of you Lawrie.
>
>Larry Hoy
Regards
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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