05-04-2022, 08:52 PM
(04-04-2022, 08:35 PM)John Cornforth Wrote: This might be of interest:
Commercial Motor September 1941
Oil Insulation in Heavy-duty Ignition Coil
A new Runbaken device, named the Oilcoil, which constitutes an ....
I can't imagine that the oil is the insulation, surely it is just for cooling, conducting the heat away from the varnish insulated copper windings.
Does anyone know why they used this dangerous oil? Presumably the common oil-filled coils of the fifties through to nineties were using a different oil?