Oatley Electronics Q

[Phil Allison]

Hi,


anyone got a schem for the Oatley Electronics " Glo Plug Driver " published in Silicon Chip in March 2000 ?

Bugger about the US archive being bluffed out of carrying this old stuff.


If you do, can you post it somewhere ?




..... Phil

 

[~misfit~]

On 30/10/2019 5:30 PM, Phil Allison wrote:

Hi,


anyone got a schem for the Oatley Electronics " Glo Plug Driver " published in Silicon Chip in March 2000 ?

Bugger about the US archive being bluffed out of carrying this old stuff.


If you do, can you post it somewhere ?




.... Phil

This any help Phil?
<http://controlline.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?printertopic=1&t=5182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&finish_rel=-10000>

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[~misfit~]

On 30/10/2019 5:30 PM, Phil Allison wrote:

Hi,


anyone got a schem for the Oatley Electronics " Glo Plug Driver " published in Silicon Chip in March 2000 ?

Bugger about the US archive being bluffed out of carrying this old stuff.


If you do, can you post it somewhere ?




.... Phil

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Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville

This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software.

 

[Phil Allison]

~misfit~ wrote:

Phil Allison wrote:

,


anyone got a schem for the Oatley Electronics " Glo Plug Driver "
published in Silicon Chip in March 2000 ?

Bugger about the US archive being bluffed out of carrying this old stuff.


If you do, can you post it somewhere ?


This any help Phil?
http://controlline.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?printertopic=1&t=5182&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&finish_rel=-10000

** Thanks.

That must be the one, wot an awful POS.

I was curious cos a design of mine was published in EA magazine in the late 1980s in "Circuit & Design Ideas".

Nothing like the above.

It was buck regulator with a pot-core inductor and loop feedback to regulate the actual temperature of the coil in a Glo plug. When the engine started, current backed right off automatically, avoiding burn outs.

Good efficiency, it drew a steady 500 to 700 mA from a battery over a wide voltage range with plug attached. I used a 2.5 Ah gell cell.

OTOH - the Oatley driver draws 20amp spikes of current with a 5 to 10% duty cycle. Only works with a car battery or Ni-Cd pack, any operator errors burn out the plug.


..... Phil