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From: steve@alberta.UUCP (Steve Sutphen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.photo
Subject: Xenon flash tube sources
Keywords: flash strobe
Message-ID: <144@snaring.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 20:39:16 GMT
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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I am looking for sources for Xenon flash tubes (the kind that are used in
camera flashes and strobes).  I would like to find data sheets for a flash
tube that is in some existing equipment (I cannot see any identification
on the part at all) as well as a (cheap) supplier of tubes.  I looked in the
Efstonscience (the Edmund Scientific distributor for Canada) and could not
find such a device.  I have two projects that I would like this data for:
upgrading the flash level in a friends slide duplicator, and building some
experiments to try and freeze moving objects on film.  I want to understand
what the various parameters are (watt-seconds and duration of the flash) and
how to control them (can I just add a larger capacitor to an existing flash
to get more light out or would that burn up the tube?).
	thanks,
		steve.