Hid

melicha8

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I have a question for anyone that is electronically minded. In HID systems they boost the stock voltage from 12 volts to a really high number (1000V maybe?) I know the part that does this is the ballasts. My teacher in chemistry class back when I was a sophomore in HS also did this when she was showing us electrons running through a cathode ray tube. She did this with a Tesla Coil from a 110V socket. Since the electrons jumped about 8 inches as opposed to our .04 inches on our spark plugs I assumed she jumped the voltage on the tesla coil to over 10,000V) so my question is... How is it possible to boost voltage without adding some sort of battery but instead run it off a stock 12 volt car battery? An answer to this would be great because this has been ****ing with my head for about two days now. Thanks
 
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