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Article #7626Re: Neon/gas discharge Iluminators
From: gwyn
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1988 09:28
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1988 09:28
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In article <636@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes: >How difficult would it be to make a power supply that >would run off 6-12 volts to drive such a neon tube. Shouldn't be hard at all. Use a multivibrator circuit as a fairly high-frequency oscillator and a transformer to step up the voltage. Xenon flash attachments for cameras do something like this (they actually charge up a capacitor rather than continuously powering a light).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!ulysses!allegra!princeton!udel!gatech!purdue!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Neon/gas discharge Iluminators Message-ID: <7114@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 16 Jan 88 09:28:50 GMT References: <636@ndmath.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 10 Posted: Sat Jan 16 04:28:50 1988