Ah, Safari lights. Takes me back to camping as a Scout ...the days when high-voltage batteries were considered normal and inverters were exotic.
Scaling Down Compact Flourescent Bulbs
Sep 24, 2003
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the name of it. It's stuck away out in the garage somewhere. One would think that using a simple vibrator inverter from the 1930s would be cheaper than high voltage batteries. A ham friend and I were making 250W inverters back in the '60s using Ge power transistors so it could've been done easily with a single power transistor.
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You'll be glad you did! Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't changed it:
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Whereas On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:19:27 -0700, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun" scribbled: , I thus relpy:
Back in High School, I made an invertor using a single transistor, single winding oscillator, using a power transformers from old transistor radios. The inverters were used to power xenon strobe lights (stroble tubes taken from a disposeable camera or something, the trigger transformer was a few turns of#36 magnet wire on an old IF coil from an old tube radio set).
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