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I dont get how people hook up the ignition system on a metal hybrid wont the electricety go all over the metal because it conducts electricity

many put some insulation around the spark gap

As simple as the following example.

Only one electrode needs to be insulated from the other. I usually hook the ground electrode to the cannon body anywhere, and run the hot electrode through a piece of 1/4" nylon bolt with #6 threaded rod to insulate it from the cannon.

bigbob12345 wrote:I dont get how people hook up the ignition system on a metal hybrid wont the electricety go all over the metal because it conducts electricity

Bigbob, here's something to think about;

A 4-cylinder gasoline engine can be described as a
Quad, full-auto, 8X hybrid spud gun that fires a captured round

A gasoline engine is metal.
A gasoline engine uses a spark to ignite the fuel in the cylinder.

How does a gasoline engine do that without the electricity going all over the metal?

very good jimmy101