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On 15 Aug 2003 at 5:53, Air Cooled wrote: > The wire you are speaking about only carries 12V, and I believe its 18awg so > it cant really carry anything more than about 16 amps. While technically > still enough to kill a person, its extremely unlikely (if not impossible) to > get shocked (or even feel anything), from the current in that wire. While it starts out as 12V, when the points open the inductive flyback of the coil pushes it up to a couple hundred volts. It's just a very brief spike, but that's the spike that the coil (a transformer) steps up to 10-20kV. You're right that there's not enough current there to hurt anyone, but it can still hurt if you touch it. You have to actually touch it, however. A couple hundred volts isn't enough to jump out to you. > More than likely you were getting the voltage from the spark plug wires Right. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org