Re: ferrite mini coil

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Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>

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

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<PeterCGMN-at-aol-dot-com>
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> In a message dated 1/20/02 2:44:29 PM, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
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>>Get a flash camera, and remove the xenon tube, that should work ace.
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> Sounds good.................hope my dad won't miss his camera too much ;0)
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> 73, Kc0Ion, "Ion-Boy"
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