A battery in a traditional car cannot directly create engine spark. It’s only rated at 12 volts, after all, so it needs a little help boosting the signal to the spark plugs. To make that happen, a car ...

An ignition coil takes voltage from the battery and multiplies it to create a spark at the spark plugs, which in turn ignites the engine. Cars have been using some form of the coil ignition system for ...

Abstract: This paper describes a detailed design of a 6-T Nb 3 Sn superconducting racetrack coil designed for conduction cooling. We then describe a bench test pursued as a proof of concept for one ...

Abstract: The superconducting field winding of the MIT-DOE 10 MVA experimental generator has been designed using a unique structural concept of fourteen discrete saddle shaped winding modules ...