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[QUOTE="canyncarvr, post: 789267, member: 16552"]
re: thicker wire would prevent arcing.

Maybe.  Maybe not.  It depends on considerably more than that single issue.

It is true that more wraps means more voltage (capability) and larger wire means more current (capability).  The ignition parts and pieces as a system need to be considered if there is a breakdown/arcing problem.

BTW, my answer to the 'thicker wire...prevent shorts' question is, 'No, it will not.'

But that would come from understanding a short to be a low-resistance connection across a voltage source.  That [b]is[/b] the definition of a short circuit.

Arcing is a different matter altogether.  When technologies changed coil activation from negative (grounding a saturated coil) to positive (driving spikes/waveforms/pulses into a coil) arcing came to be considerably more prevalent.

It's still true (last I checked ;) ) that voltage will take the path of least resistance.  If for whatever reason a charge is allowed to build past the point of which the system can contain it, it will find [b]someplace[/b] to 'get out.'  Normally that happens every time a plug fires because the plug is the path of least resistance.  Obviously the charge will go someplace else if the plug is [b]not[/b] that path.
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