Been reading this and trying to get my head wrapped back around things.
Many years ago, I learned enough to know what was causing the dark line to crawl up the screen of an old CRT television set and a few other minor problems.
The capacitor charge rise time has always seemed like a way to build a rev limiter. Chy-farm has shown it to happen.
(Thank you chy-farm for all of that work!)
i.e. perhaps charge a cap that triggers a separate gated device, which bleeds off the current to ground, rather than into the high tension side of the coil.
That said:
I can't help but look at these circuits and think of needing to think of resonances (that alter current flow) and band pass stuff.
Think of analog audio & speaker crossovers.
I'm thinking of a high pass filter as a rev limiter.
Or how about another circuit to
slightly bleed a small amount off of the charge, so as to slow the advance curve?
I read a little bit about transformers when power inverters were still a new thing on the market.
Thus, my money is on that "foot" shape of the,
three leg Stihl armature, as having a strong affect on the advance curve.
...and lastly, Yes, the phrase "a smattering of ignorance on many things" would cover me well.
so please forgive me the rambling, half finished thoughts here.
Much, much more in my head but clinical ADD makes it hard to get things typed out in one posting.
