Posts Tagged: Ignition Coil
How an Ignition Coil works
How an Ignition Coil works An ignition coil provides a high voltage pulse that fires across a spark gap to ignite the air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber. The ignition coil has three components; primary winding, a secondary winding, and an iron core. These components work together to convert 12-volt DC power in 25,000 to 40,000 volts DC. Primary windings and the iron core The primary winding consists of approximately 200 wraps of a thick gauge wire wound around an iron core. When 12 volts are applied to the primary … Read More
Diagnose ignition coil failure
Diagnose ignition coil failure — How to Most late model engines use coil-on-plug (COP) ignition coils. COP ignition coil provide higher voltage than coil packs because they operate with longer dwell time. In other words, they have more time to build a magnetic field before the power shuts off and the field collapse. So a COP produces a higher voltage spark when it collapses. Car makers need that hotter/longer spark to ignite leaner fuel mixtures in modern engines. What a COP ignition coil schematic looks like COP ignition coils can … Read More
Is it the ignition coil?
Is a bad ignition coil causing your misfire or no-start condition? An ignition coil failure can be permanent, causing a no spark no start condition or it can intermittent, causing a cylinder-specific misfire condition or a random misfire. The trouble code for a random misfire condition is a P0300 and a cylinder specific misfire trouble code is P030X, with the X corresponding to the cylinder number. Ignition coils are made in various configurations like: single can coil, coil pack and coil-on-plug (COP). But they all operate on the same principle. … Read More
P0351 – P0362
P0351 – P0362 Ignition Coil A-L Primary , Secondary Circuit Malfunction If you have a P0351 – P0362 Ignition Coil A-L Primary , Secondary Circuit Malfunction trouble code, read this to understand what it means Each ignition coil is built with two bobbins of wire. The primary coil has fewer windings than the secondary coil. The primary coil induces an electrical field into the secondary coil. When the primary current is shut off, the electrical field collapses. Because the secondary has so many more windings, it converts the electrical field … Read More