[Healeys] ingnition leads

[Bob Spidell]

Electricity only travels at 95-97% of the speed of light through unshielded copper wire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity) 

That'll make a huge difference. 

Bob 


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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald at gmail.com> 
To: "Ed O'Neal" <ed at wadsworth-eng.com> 
Cc: Healeys at autox.team.net 
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:26:11 AM 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] ingnition leads 

For those of you that are math inclined. 
Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second 
186,000 miles per second = 982,080,000 feet per second 
982,080,000 = 11,784,960,000 inches per second. That is eleven billion, 
seven hundred eighty four million, nine hundred sixty thousand inches in 
one second. 
Having one spark lead 1" longer will delay the spark by 
Are you ready for this? 
Are you sure? 
*0.000000000085 seconds.* 
*Holy shit, that is going to throw your timing on that cylinder all to 
hell. </sarcasm > 
*