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Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition
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Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition

by Tom Denton
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
700 pages
28h 19m
English
Routledge
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Ignition
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7.2.2 Constant dwell systems
The term ‘dwell’ when applied to ignition is a measure of the time during which
the ignition coil is charging, in other words when the primary current is owing.
The dwell in conventional systems was simply the time during which the contact
breakers were closed. This is now often expressed as a percentage of one charge–
discharge cycle. Constant dwell electronic ignition systems have now been replaced
almost without exception by constant energy systems discussed in the next section.
Whilst this was a very good system in its time, constant dwell still meant that
at very high engine speeds, the time available ...
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