Return-Path: Received: from mail1.teleport.com ([192.108.254.26]) by truman.olsusa.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 0-44819U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA15318 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:58:37 -0400 Received: (qmail 23655 invoked from network); 30 Sep 1998 02:58:35 -0000 Received: from pdx59-i48-26.teleport.com (HELO peweston) (204.202.167.232) by mail1.teleport.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 1998 02:58:35 -0000 Message-ID: <001d01bdec1d$561d2800$5726fea9@peweston> From: "Pat Weston" To: "Lancair List" Subject: arc suppression Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:50:09 -0700 X-Mailing-List: lancair.list@olsusa.com Mime-Version: 1.0

Very good dissertation on relay coil snubbing by Dan Schaefer. So here's my 2c...

A year or two ago when my spam can came back from its annual, a neat little diode was mounted across the starter relay coil. The mounting was carried out by crimping two terminals onto the diodes wire leads. So, as expected the diode had vibrated one end loose after about 20 hours. I pondered the problem and came up with the idea of mounting an ignition capacitor across the relay. It's cheap, has great mounting lugs and terminals and does an adequate job of snubbing the back EMF from the coil.

As I said, it's only 2c worth.

Right Rudder!

Pat