Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry: The breaker is Harry, Sophie. I jes' tuned ya in. Could this be the Golden Verce of Sout' Levittown...
Sophie: 'at's a big 10-4, Harry. I don't know about golden, but I feel a little sinusy tonight . . . Wait a minute. Harry, there's another breaker. Come in, breaker...
Sophie: 10-4. Marcie . . . Oh-oh. here's a breaker; come in. breaker, and indentify yourself...
...time-honored system has never been trouble-free. Breaker points become worn or corroded; spark plugs get fouled with carbon or lead from souped-up gasoline. Lately trouble has increased. Engines are getting bigger and faster; their highly compressed fuel charges need fatter sparks to explode them, but the conventional system delivers weaker sparks at high speeds. So Detroit's automakers are warming toward ignition systems that take advantage of modern electronics...
There are two types of transistorized systems. The simplest send only a small current through the breaker points, thus saving wear. The small pulsating current from the points triggers a transistor system that in turn controls the high current needed by the coil. Manufacturers claim that such systems save fuel, give more fire power, make both points and plugs work indefinitely at top efficiency at any speed. An even more rewarding system produced by New Jersey's Motion Inc. includes a capacitor that is charged by the high-tension current that is normally fed directly from coil to spark...