I am trying to create a low cost, reliable method of making a spark to ignite the pilot of a combustor. Using a cheap automotive coil and capacitor/condensor wired thusly:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccf0fxjtk5inf1d/circuit.png?dl=0
seems to work. Sort of.
The coil gets rather warm/hot in use, not something typical of an automotive coil in use. Is there something jumping out at anyone that I need to do with this circuit to prevent that, and also is there something I can do to just improve the circuit in general.
As is, it generates a nice strong spark which is great. Just wondering if there might be either a better way to do it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ccf0fxjtk5inf1d/circuit.png?dl=0
seems to work. Sort of.
The coil gets rather warm/hot in use, not something typical of an automotive coil in use. Is there something jumping out at anyone that I need to do with this circuit to prevent that, and also is there something I can do to just improve the circuit in general.
As is, it generates a nice strong spark which is great. Just wondering if there might be either a better way to do it.