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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.
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Posted: Sat Jan 16 04:28:50 1988

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).