The Subsidiary Gap as a Means for Improving Ignition Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title The Subsidiary Gap as a Means for Improving Ignition
  • Series Title NACA Technical Reports

Creator

  • Author: Gorton, W. S.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Originator: United States. National Bureau of Standards.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Date

  • Creation: 1920

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This report presents the results of an investigation into the utility, action, and design of the auxiliary spark gap as a means for insuring freedom from spark plug failure due to fouling, and also to enable the restarting of fouled plugs. A brief account is given of the use of this gap up to the present time and also of the statements concerning it which have gained some currency, most of which are shown to be erroneous. The simple theory of the action of the series gap is discussed and a detailed account given of the effect upon the sparking ability of the plug produced by changes in the values of the electrical resistance of the fouling and of the capacities in parallel with the plug and with the magneto or coil.
  • Physical Description: 16 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: subsidiary gaps
  • Keyword: aircraft power
  • Keyword: spark plugs

Collection

  • Name: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Collection
    Code: NACA
  • Name: Technical Report Archive and Image Library
    Code: TRAIL

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: pd
  • Rights Statement: No Copyright, Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 93R20409
  • URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19930091119
  • Report No.: NACA-TR-57
  • Center for AeroSpace Information Number: 19930091119
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc65709
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