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- From: Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Directions for building strobe circuits
- Message-ID: <69811@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 21:43:48 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov13.035350.67485@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- <1992Nov17.005004.21980@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- >
- >I'm considering trying to build a setup making use of a rapidly
- >flashing strobe bulb. I've had some luck finding the bulbs (thanks to
- >people on this list!), but haven't been able to find any references to
- >books or kits detailing the construction of circuits for driving the
- >bulbs. I've found a few kits that operate in the range of 1 to 2
- >flashes per second, but I'm looking for a much greater flash rate
- >(probably from about 10-100 Hz).
- >
- >
- >Would anyone on this list happen be able to refer me to a source for
- >either a kit or literature that would discuss the construction of such
- >a circuit?
- >
- >Any help will be enormously appreciated!
- >
- >Nate
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- >Nate Osgood | ARPA: hacrat@catfish.lcs.mit.edu
- >CS Graduate Student |
- >MIT LCS Room NE43-636 | UUCP: ...!uunet!catfish.lcs.mit.edu!hacrat
- >
- Hello, Nate....
- I don't mean to embarass you... At least not too much....
- Dr Harold Edgerton was the formost American inventor of Strobe Lights and
- related equipment. I am not sure, but I think he died in the past year.
- He had been a professor at MIT since the mid twenties I think. His laboratory
- was right below the great dome of the main building. As a freshman, I was luck
- y
- enough to take a course in strobe technology from him in the late sixties. If
- his lab is still open and if other professors are still engaged in stroboscopic
- research and teaching, you probably daily walk below the greatest resources in
- the United States for your Strobe Light questions... I really hope this is
- still possible...
- Good luck... Ted...
-