Malcolm writes: > Hi Mike, the wire from the photoflash unit to the coil should > definitely be short and fat; 4 ft of 12 Ga. "speaker wire" zip cord > (that's what they call it at my local hardware store) would be very > good, 16 Ga. is a little skinny.
Okay. I had a hard time finding any that large. > A short in the coil would lower it's resistance AND it's reactance so > is not at all likely to cause a longer discharge time through the > photoflash bulb which you observed, rather the opposite. Cool! I hope you're right. I'd rather not rewind from scratch. > Sooo, look for things which slow down the discharge; resistance in the > wires, or in the flashtube itself, too many turns of wire on the coil. I have another tube I can swap with to test that. I can try taking a few turns off the coil, no problem. I kinda lost count, so the turns count may be off the high end of the range. Peter writes: > The test washer was a fender washer : 1.0 diameter with 1/8 hole. > this type of washer will jump much higher than a smaller one. When > placed 1/2 inch off center in a 35 watt-second strobe it will jump 12 > inches. Well, for me the smaller one jumps a foot and one of those barely hops. Obviously not working like it's supposed to. <sigh> > The capacitors were 330 VDC, 600uF, 450 VDC, 600uF What do you mean by capacitors? I only replaced one, and that with a single component. Thank you, Malcolm, Peter. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
