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Re: [T3] dwell meter using oscilloscope?


> You can certainly do this with a scope, but most of the time that's
> overkill. 45 degrees would correspond to a 50% duty cycle (45 is half
> of 90 and each cylinder gets 90 degrees of the distributor rotation.)
>
> Your dwell meter is probably made to work with 8 cylinder engines,
> where a 50% duty cycle means 22.5 degrees of dwell. Most dwell meters
> have a switch for different numbers of cylinders or different scales
> to read from depending on your number of cylinders.

hmmm. I was thinking the duty cycle would be less but I didnt consider the
4 lobes in the dizzy. I was thinking about just 1 cylinder.


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