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Old 12-23-2011, 11:44 PM
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Wow and I though teaching Ohms law to young Automotive Technicians was hard. That had my head spinning!

I think it all boils down to electrical higher potentional moving to a lower. What is the path of least resisitance? You can make electricity hit anything if you have enough push behind it.

When I set up my demonstration of voltage. It always takes the best conductor vs the one with the most resistiance. And in a spark plug it likes a clean flat edge vs a point.

Which is why a center electrode starts out round and flat and after 100k miles is rounded off all the way around. It keeps jumping to the newer clean edge.

Copper is a better conductor. It must be properly grounded. I would rather have lighting hit a rod on the roof than my metal AC unit, or birdcage or me!

Price of cooper is probably driving up the cost of installation. Has anyone on TOTV been quoted a price they wish to share?

We lost a very good citizen. A young Business man from Skaneateles on a Florida Golf course. Sunny day on vacation no clouds no rain raised his club to swing and bam. That was that. Dave Pirro from Pirro Bros Ford in Skaneateles NY.