Originally posted by Bodkins
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So Bodkins you are saying that one of the ignition coils is a lower "sink" because it is in series with another connected to the source? Or are you saying that because the coils arent identical?
AC says that the conductive gases can be our sink. What if there is HV coming off each coil and sinking into the light itself?
Food for thought

, Take a large self-inductance and charge it with an electric current in this case we can say the energy has been stored as a magnetic field.Then when the coils current is disrupted the magnetic field collapses and an inductive discharge develops across the coil leads----which is what you have been doing. But you have "two" leads from the HV coil, one is under a compression (the negative) and can be considered a source seeking a sink, the other highly expanded (the positive) can be considered as a sink seeking a source. This is different from what we have been taught because Faraday was wrong in believing the positive terminal of a battery was a source, He was corrected but the textbooks were not which is why I use electron flow notation where the negative terminal of a battery is a source and the positive terminal is a sink. Bill Beaty has an excellent website which deals with the issues of "what" electricity is and the misconceptions we have.
The 25 ohm rheostat resistor that I'm using as a voltage/current control on the source battery helped matters to. Good luck.
I was surprised. I have always thought that you could not close the loop like that. I am going to leave the LB hooked up like that. It makes the whole thing alot easier. I set it up like you said so that I can still use the unit as a charger when I want to. The little battery pack will run the light for 4 hours now between charge ups. That is enough for me. Us 'old folks' go to bed pretty early these day.
Finally I got tired of it and just did something else for the day.
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