On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Richard Hattaway <rhatta...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Remember the older plugs that had bare wire running between them and a > single feed from the end.. that wire was no bigger than #10 and prolly > #12 in fact. It glowed red, too, sometimes. That wire was not ordinary copper wire, it was nichrome resistance wire and was puposely designed into the circuit to keep the current to a reasonable value. That wire was also why the series-loop-style glow plugs were not very efficient: most of the heat generated by the huge drain from the battery was generated OUTSIDE of the cylinders. The parallel-style glow plugs put virtually all of the heat generated INSIDE the cylinders, where it will do good. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
