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The wasted spark coil packs use only one secondary per 2 spark plugs creating a single electrical circuit sparking both plugs in series off the same secondary. The energy used and voltage loss to jump the spark gap on the non-ignition (wasted) side is small relative to the ignition side. You can run COP as a wasted spark system but now the two coil secondaries would be working as independent circuits rather than in series, just triggered by the same source at the same time which would allow you to run both plugs on the same cylinder with the same ignitor or trigger. You can't really run both plugs on one cylinder from the same wasted spark coil effectively.