I want to build a circuit that flashes a strobe ten times a second. From what I understand the typical camera strobe has a little converter that charges a cap to a few hundred volts and the cap gets dumped into the strobe light for the flash.
I'm sure this is the kind of thing that has been done a million times. Maybe I could get a a surplus camera strobe circuit from one of the surplus suppliers like allelectronics or goldmine. If it can charge in 1/10 sec I can just hook it up to a 555. I'm not so sure just any randomly acquired camera strobe would charge up that fast, though.
I was also thinking I could use an inductor to provide the energy for the strobe. Use a timing circuit to ramp up the inductor and then when the inductor gets cut off, the spike diverts through a diode into the strobe. Maybe this is not standard practice, but I have some experience building inductive switching circuits using timers and mosfets or igbts.
I'm sure this is the kind of thing that has been done a million times. Maybe I could get a a surplus camera strobe circuit from one of the surplus suppliers like allelectronics or goldmine. If it can charge in 1/10 sec I can just hook it up to a 555. I'm not so sure just any randomly acquired camera strobe would charge up that fast, though.
I was also thinking I could use an inductor to provide the energy for the strobe. Use a timing circuit to ramp up the inductor and then when the inductor gets cut off, the spike diverts through a diode into the strobe. Maybe this is not standard practice, but I have some experience building inductive switching circuits using timers and mosfets or igbts.