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From: ee5001ae@charon.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Flashtube info sought
Keywords: Obscure device
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Date: 1 Dec 88 07:17:29 GMT
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Our local electronics surplus shop has acquired a few impressive-looking
flashtubes with octal bases and glass envelopes around a 5-turn coiled tube
with the legend:
			Amglo
			78R9D

	and a few patent numbers on the base.

We have no data at all on these things, and I'm wondering if anyone out there
knows either the data or a likely source for the data on this tube.

I don't need to say it, but I will anyway. We need to know:

	o Pin-out for the base
	o Maximum and minimum electrode voltages
	o Maximum and minimum trigger voltages
	o Maximum power rating in joules (watt-seconds to the unwashed)
	o Any special info about the characteristics of the energy storage
		capacitors these things need.
	o Maximum and minimum light outputs


		Better Caving through Electrical Stuff,
						d


-- 
	Always pay careful attention to the man behind the curtain.
  Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5001ae@charon.unm.edu