www.directhits.com

 

Come on, let me hear what you think about it.

 

Nathan, you refer us to a commercial website selling an accessory claimed to enhance ignition spark when installed atop a spark plug.

You asked what we "think" of the device. Here's what I think, admittedly without any experience or observation of the actual product.

First of all, a kind of alarm/detector/warning device deeply inside me activates when I see any passive device billed as an "amplifier." Should such a label comport with my definition of amplifier, then the Laws of Conservation of Energy, as I know them, have been repealed, and we stand on the threshold of true perpetual motion in our time (which, like Cold Fusion outside the state of Utah, appears elusive).

A laboratory report hot-linked to the referral discusses improvements in the efficiency of secondary ignition circuits.
However, when an applique, like the product offered, is merely inserted at the terminus of the existing secondary ignition circuit, I fail to see how any passive deveice can compensate for or restore losses already experienced.

While one might design and build an ignition system from the ground up with a low-loss secondary, but tacking-on a gadget to an existing relatively high-loss ignition secondary (with conventional coil windings, graphite-path ignition wire, etc.), seems an improbable source of gain.

I admit I do not understand fully the "Direct Hit" technology (so far I've seen no instructive late-night cable TV infomercial). Yet it seems to me, when the spark pulse reaches the spark plug connection, through the existing ignition wiring, whatever existing penalty of resistive loss has already been paid; I cannot imagine any passive device inserted at that point overcoming that penalty, yet again enhancing the spark by somehow generating more power or creating circuit efficiencies after the fact (of resistive losses).

Yet my mind is open; if "Direct Hits" works as claimed, I think Detroit might be interested. Further, I remain fully willing to be educated and convinced of the improvements Direct Hits offers.

One advantage; the gadget appears economical; it won't cost much to do your own test and evaluation (if you own a single-cylinder engine, that is)! I offer a modest proposal to the manufacturer: since "one size fits all," regarding the electrical characteristics of the device, why not sell a universal model fitting in the coil wire hole of a distributor; then the owner of the V-10 need buy only one gadget instead of ten (one for each spark plug).

Tree Farmer



[This message has been edited by Tree Farmer (edited 10-16-1999).]

 

Yea Nathan...what he said.

Very enlightening post Tree Farmer, as always!

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Jerry Goodman '99 400L, '98 TBlazer

 

Don,t know if any one else has ever seen this but you can pull a spark plug wire back from the top of the plug far enough that the spark has to "jump" to the plug and it has the effect of intensifieing the spark. By doing this you can force a plug that has been oil or fuel fouled to fire . I have used this trick numerous times to clear a fouled cylinder on an old tractor of ours. An old mechanic taught me that. But you can,t run the engine with the wires off like that because it will melt the terminals in the wires. Looks like these guys might have found a way around this.

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Kevin Gowdy aka Kagey 1999 Polaris Magnum 500

 

Neat Trick! I'll have to try that on my old 82 Big Red, it eats up plugs like crazy.

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