cep4478@ritcv.UUCP (Christopher E. Piggott) (09/04/88)
Greetings, world. I am planning on experimenting with a few Xenon flash tubes, mostly for fun. (The idea is to get four of them on a ring counter, to flash on top of my jeep in yellow - for towing my watercraft). Here are the specifications on the tube (sold by Radio Shack): Maximum anode voltage: 400v Minimum anode voltage: 200v Operating voltage: 250v Flash Energy: 4 watt/sec Trigger Voltage: 4kv My question is: how do I get this to fire off of 12 volts? I'm planning on having four tubes, and would like to trigger them by 500v SCR's if possible, so that I can have one power supply for all four tubes. The firing pattern should be such that each tube fires once per second, so the power supply would have to charge in 1/4sec. Could somebody either send me suggestions, or refer me to a good book or magazine article to check out? /Christopher E. Piggott ..rochester!ritcv!cep4478 or CEP4478@RITVAXD.BITNET or ritcv!cep4478@ROCHESTER.ARPA or anything else that works