What is an Ignition System?
An automotive ignition system is the set of components and parts that are responsible for igniting the air/fuel mixture within the combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine.
Category: Electrical
History of the Starter Motor
The history of the starter motor can be traced to turn of the century England, but the modern starter owes a lot to DELCO and a Swedish inventor named Vincent Bendix.
What is a Starter Motor?
The starter motor is one of the most indispensable components on your car, and you’re not going anywhere without it.
What is an Automotive Fuse?
An automotive fuse is like a safety valve that can protect the electronics in your car by failing before anything else can be damaged.
What is a Fuel Gauge?
Early motorists went for a surprisingly long time without fuel gauges. The first “gauges” were actually yard sticks, the first dash-mounted gauge didn’t appear until 1914, and even then most fuel gauges were mechanical and read at the tank.
What is a Generator?
The DC generator has a long history in the automotive world. Falling out of use in the 1960s, generators have found surprising new life in hybrids.
Headlights: Illuminating the Darkness
Headlights have been around almost since the very beginning of the automobile, but they have gone through some pretty radical changes over the years.
Introducing the Instrument Cluster
Every car has an instrument cluster, but where did they come from, and where are they going?
