Hello forum,
I think this is technically my second post? but my first post never showed up...
oh well...
Anywho, so I am an experienced photographer on a budget.
I've been shooting for about 6 years now and want to upgrade some equipment... However I'm not interested in spending two grand on metal cans with flash tubes in them...
SO! I come to your forum to ask some questions...
I would like to construct one simple light can to start off, and was wondering what the circuit would be for controlling the flash tube.
The flash tube I'm going to use is the cheap and venerable Novatron F0008 which has a 1500 Watt per Second (w/s) rating.
Now, I am not a circuitry guru, so this is more of an experiment for me to learn more about electronics... Please excuse any seemingly basic or n00bish comments
As far as the design goes, I want to use a continuously variable brightness, which would mean every time the brightness is changed, the light would need to be recycled (flashed). I think this means I either need a variable capacitor or a potentiometer to vary how much power enters the cap. there would also need to be some way to recycle the lamp manually
I'll post some designs I have later
I think this is technically my second post? but my first post never showed up...
oh well...
Anywho, so I am an experienced photographer on a budget.
I've been shooting for about 6 years now and want to upgrade some equipment... However I'm not interested in spending two grand on metal cans with flash tubes in them...
SO! I come to your forum to ask some questions...
I would like to construct one simple light can to start off, and was wondering what the circuit would be for controlling the flash tube.
The flash tube I'm going to use is the cheap and venerable Novatron F0008 which has a 1500 Watt per Second (w/s) rating.
Now, I am not a circuitry guru, so this is more of an experiment for me to learn more about electronics... Please excuse any seemingly basic or n00bish comments
As far as the design goes, I want to use a continuously variable brightness, which would mean every time the brightness is changed, the light would need to be recycled (flashed). I think this means I either need a variable capacitor or a potentiometer to vary how much power enters the cap. there would also need to be some way to recycle the lamp manually
I'll post some designs I have later