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From: YD <ydtech...@techie.com>
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Subject: Re: Plastic capacitor for camera flash tube?
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Late at night, by candle light, "Dontspam" <donts...@invalid.invalid>
penned this immortal opus:

>bw wrote:
>> "Dontspam" <donts...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:k4khii$l2i$1@dont-email.me...
>>> Phil Allison wrote:
>>>> "Dontspam"
>>>> **  Yep, they will work fine.
>>>>
>>>>> If so, will an AC x2 cap be more suitable than a DC cap?
>>>>
>>>> **  X2 caps are regularly used in party strobes etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. I take it that that means film caps can be expected to
>>> produce better results than ordinary Al electrolytics, and 
>>> that they
>>> will not degrade quickly with repeated discharges.
>>>
>>
>> Your local thrift store will have boxes full of old flash 
>> cameras
>> selling for pennys. Buy a few, take them apart.
>> Any cheap 35mm from the 1980s is ok, but look for really old 
>> polaroid
>> cameras. They have simple, easily understood circuits.
>> http://donklipstein.com/donflash.html has all the info you want 
>> on
>> flash circuits
>
>Thanks for your interest, but there are no thrift shops where I 
>live, at least not the kind that sells such stuff. 
>

Can you get an old microwave oven? They have a large HV cap inside.

- YD.

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