Unit 14 Ignition System 汽车专业英语教材课程.ppt

Unit 14 Ignition System;Unit 14 Ignition System; The automotive ignition system has two basic functions; it must control the spark and timing of the spark plug firing to match varying engine requirements, and it must increase battery voltage to a point where it will overcome the resistance offered by the spark plug gap and fire the plug[1]. ;Point Type Ignition System An automotive ignition system is divided into two electrical circuits—the primary and secondary circuits. The primary circuit carries low voltage. This circuit operates only on battery current and is controlled by the breaker points and the ignition switch. The secondary circuit coil (commonly called the coil wire), the distributor cap the distributor rotor, the spark plug leads and the spark plugs. ;Unit 14 Ignition System;The outer end of the rotor passes very close to the contacts connected to the spark plug leads around the outside of the distributor cap. The coil is the heart of the ignition system. Essentially, it is nothing more than a transformer which takes the relatively low voltage (12 volts) available from the battery and increasing it to a point where it will fire the plug as much as 40,000 volts[3]. ;The term coil is perhaps a misnomer since there are actually two coils of wire wound about an iron cone. These coils are insulated from each other and the whole assembly is enclosed in an oil-filled case. The primary coil, which consists of relatively few turns of heavy wire, is connected to the two primary terminals located on top of the coil. The secondary coil consists of many turns of fine wire. ;It is connected to the high-tension connection on top of the coil (the tower into which the coil wire from the distributor is plugged). Under normal operating conditions, power from the battery is fed through a resistor or resistance wire to the primary circuit of the coil and is then grounded through the ignition points in the distributor (the points are closed). ;Energizing th