spark-plug side electrode

  • 1Spark plug — A spark plug (also, very rarely nowadays, in British English: a sparking plug) is an electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of some internal combustion engines and ignites compressed aerosol gasoline by means of an electric spark.… …

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  • 2spark plug — A device containing two electrodes across which electricity jumps to produce a spark to fire the fuel charge. The center electrode is insulated from the spark plug shell by means of a molded insulator resembling porcelain. The side electrode… …

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  • 3spark plug electrode — The two electrodes in a spark plug are the center electrode and the side (or ground) electrode …

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  • 4side electrode — The ground electrode at the side of the threaded part of a spark plug shell …

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  • 5surface gap spark plug — A type of spark plug in which the spark is fired across the insulator surface between the center electrode and the shell; there is no side electrode …

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  • 6split electrode spark plug — A spark plug with a V shaped side electrode …

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  • 7electrode — [1] In a spark plug one electrode (the center electrode) is the center rod passing through the insulator. The side electrode is a rod welded to the shell of the spark plug. The distance between them is the spark gap. [2] In welding it is the… …

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  • 8Spark-gap transmitter — A spark gap transmitter is a device for generating radio frequency electromagnetic waves. These devices served as the transmitters for most wireless telegraphy systems for the first three decades of radio (1887 ndash;1916) and the first… …

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  • 9plug gapping — Adjusting the side electrode on a spark plug to provide the proper air gap between it and the center electrode …

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  • 10spark gap — The space between the center and side electrode tips on a spark plug. Also see gap …

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