Originally Posted by
mixedgas
I'm Not a ADJ fan, but I love the MegaFlash. We actually used two of them in a lab for scientific photography. Works without capacitors by shorting the flashtube across the power line and firing the lamp at different points on the power line phase. Massive burst of light, can be disorienting. They do have duty cycle limits if your into running full blast and full out. Because its across the 110 AC line, recharge time is only 17 milliseconds :-)
Lamps last a very long time, for what they are.
If not, PM me, I have a few really big xenon tubes and cap banks left, but you'll need 800 volts to fire them.
Steve
Interesting way of doing it. The ones I used to build were just voltage doublers with a trigger coil for the HV and were fired by a neon light (I guess like a a low voltage spark gap). 800V I can come up with, so many things can be done with a microwave oven transformer and a variac , but I have already bought a few of the Mega Flashes based on several recommendations. Thanks for the offer, Steve!
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