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Hello -- at one time in my life I owned a handbook printed by a manufacturer
of flash tubes. It was a handy little publication, about 50 pages I'd say,
chocked full of interesting info aobut flash tubes. Well, I don't have it
any more, but I wish I did. Maybe someone who reads this group can help.

I have a small flash tube from a camera's flash attachment, and I'd like to
build a small timing light with it. The last time I built one, it was easy:
just followed the schematic in my flash tube book. There wasn't much to it
as I recall -- the spark plug wire went directly to the flash tube's
trigger. But the anode and cathode needed some circuitry between the battery
and the tube, but I can't remember, and being no engineer, have not the
foggiest idea how to design a circuit.

Does anyone have any idea:

    A. What the "bias" voltage is for a typical small flashtube, and is it
       DC or AC? If AC, what frequency?

    B. Where I can get a "ballpark" schematic to start playing with,
       modifying, etc?

    C. Where I can pick up some hobbyist-level information about flash-tube
       circuits. Besides Radio Shack, I mean. They haven't had what I needed
       in my last dozen or so trips there.

    D. The name of the company who might have published a book such as the
       one I just described? Address and/or phone number would be nice too!


Thanks!




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