Many magnetos that have been installed on old motor cars not previously so equipped are of the friction-driven, direct-current type that produces a uniform spark at any point throughout the armature revolution.
This is known as a spark coil, and while it is generally used with battery ignition of the make-and-break type, magnetos may be designed which produce the proper kind of current direct, without the aid of the coil.
All of these direct-driven magnetos are of the alternating current type, as this form allows of the simplest construction of armature and windings.
From three o'clock on, the afternoon was a perfect daze of magnetos and batteries and gas feeders and real leather upholstery.
Small dynamos and magnetos are displacing dry battery cells in the sparking equipment of motor boats and automobiles.
We decided to use magnetos and alternating current bells.
There is a gear which serves to drive the magnetos and tachometer, also the air pump.
The magnetos are driven from each of the two vertical shafts by small bevel pinions meshing in bevel gears.
In the twelve-cylinder machine two magnetos of the ordinary revolving armature or two-spark type, each supplying six cylinders, are fitted as outlined at Fig.
The magnetic influence is always greater at the poles than at the center, and that is why a horseshoe or U-form magnet is used in practically all magnetos or dynamos.
The magnetos are very accessibly located on a bracket on the spur gear cover.
Every four days the magnetos should be oiled if the engine is in daily use.
The magnetos are geared up in the proportion of 4 to 7.
After it has warmed up, short one magneto and then the other, to be sure both magnetos and spark-plugs are firing properly.
Socket wrench, 3/8" standard For bolts and nuts which fasten magnetos to crank-case.
Thence it runs down to the tail of the engine, where the magnetos are fitted, and saturates them.
Ignition is by two eight-cylinder magnetosfiring two spark-plugs per cylinder.
Separate magnetos by all means," continued Dick, "but it would be well to fit a free wheel sprocket on the main shaft of each engine, and arrange it so that each motor actuates both wings.
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