Subj : Battery Trivia
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : TOM WALKER
Date : Sun Jun 12 2005 09:48 am

JP> TW> 1866 - French engineer, Georges Leclanche patented the carbon-zinc wet
JP> TW> cell battery

JP>        He also had me going for a spin as I was trying to tuneup a
JP>  Citro‰n 2 CV. That small car had a twin-opposed motor and being 4 cycle,
JP>  to save parts and keep the price down, it only had one coil. It fired
JP>  every revolution, on the two plugs at the same time. Firing at the end
JP>  of the exhaust cycle did not matter much.


That was commonm for two cylinder motorcycles. And a Lot of
Distributorless cars use that method also. My Subaru's do. They have the
4 cylinder opposed pistion engines just like the Citroen and the Old
VW's.

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