Re: ferrite mini coil

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

At 09:54 PM 1/21/2002 +1030, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>Excellent source of small xenon flash tubes (and 300V flash capacitors) 
>is the Kodak Max disposable camera.  My wife works in the photo section 
>of a pharmacy and I get my hands on *loads* of these.  Kodak is very pro 
>recycling, so I strip out the board with all the "goodies" on it, snap 
>the camera body back together and back it all goes to Kodak ;-)
>
>Please note, this is Australia - they just seem to want a lump of 
>plastic back; Kodak in the USA even recycles the flash units (they go 
>into new cameras - details on the Kodak web site).
>
>Terry - do I remember seeing something about you playing around with 
>these for some sort of mini coil?  If so, any joy?  I've so far built a 
>0.9kV 2400 microFarad MMC with the caps so far acquired; don't think 
>that it would be suitable for TC duty as the caps are polarised, but am 
>planning to use it to make a "bang" through an auto ignition coil which 
>could then power something bigger...
>
>Cheers
>
>Matthew Smith
>

The photo flash power supplies in the disposable cameras just did not have
enough power to do much with.

Cheers,

	Terry