I'd like to put a high voltage diode inline on a motorcycle sparkplug wire.?

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The plug wire will be carrying aprox 75,000 vac @ 250ma that will be produced by a fairbanks morse magneto. I want to exploit the reversal of polarity that occurs with a dual fire harley davidson style magneto and convert it to a single fire mode useing a diode to isolate the spark pulses by polarity.
Wires of this type are available commercially but I would like to make some of my own. I need to know the type and value of the required diode as well as where I could buy it. Thanks.
 
You would need a very high voltage diode, probably rated at 200kV and 250mA. Those are difficult to find, you may be better off buying the already constructed wires.
 
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