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Originally Posted by Wasser
... I'm trying to remember back 40 some odd years ago and, nichrome comes to mind as the type of wire GM used.
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Yeah... my father called it nichrome... right after I bypassed the wiring harness on the Buick hit-to-pass race car I set up... had to pull as much as I could of that wire out of the harness and wire it back in. Never did understand why it had to be there until I read this thread. Makes sense now... thank you.
As for the heating bit... power out is volts * amps... a couple of volts drop on the minor current a coil would draw isn't going to amount to much power and thus heat.
David...