Originally Posted by ForcedInduction

Where was that? All I see is that your method was completely disproved as pseudoscience.

Originally Posted by Army

I spent a bit of time this morning trying to hunt down a thermometer so I could do the following a bit better - but all I got from the drongos behind the counters was "what do you need a thermometer for?"...

So I came home and just gave it a go.

If you attach a multimeter to a glow plug at ambient temperature (about 6 degrees C today) you get NO OUTPUT - well not one that I could measure anyway.

But if you heat the little bugger up with a blow torch (granted it would have been easier to just use the glow plug relay in the car to heat it but at the moment my engine is out - I'm in the middle of a rebuild - but I digress) you do get an output!





To be honest I am quite surprised.

It doesn't strike me as a particularly good reversible transducer but it does at this stage seem to me to be behaving like a transducer - we just have to see how good a transducer it is later on.

PS I didn't heat it for long as I didn't want to damage it - I know they make enough light to light up the prechamber when used for their real purpose but even so I was being super cautious. Besides they don't glow as a result of ignition.

leathermang=> time on my hands? Well that will be waiting for parts...