Joule Thief

[Pirate88179]

@xee2:

Sorry I had thrown away the box and left over debris so quickly. I should have made a note on the model number.  I was just excited to begin tearing it apart to get at the circuit board and forgot to do so. I am sure you know more about this than I do but a word of caution, that cap is already charged and ready to go.  I never turned on the camera or used it at all and it was charged up. It packs quite a kick.

Good luck with your project.  Let us know how you make out with it.

Bill

[WilbyInebriated]

@xee2:

Sorry I had thrown away the box and left over debris so quickly. I should have made a note on the model number.  I was just excited to begin tearing it apart to get at the circuit board and forgot to do so. I am sure you know more about this than I do but a word of caution, that cap is already charged and ready to go.  I never turned on the camera or used it at all and it was charged up. It packs quite a kick.

Good luck with your project.  Let us know how you make out with it.

Bill

this probably won't work with that fancy fuji continuous flash wizardry  well, it should work but it will just charge up again. you can hold the camera in one hand and bang it hard into the other, if it doesn't flash, turn it 90 degrees and do it again just to be sure. you have to bang it hard, but it will trigger the flash for most models. i used my hand, you can bang it against harder objects at your own risk 
this will take most of the bite out of the cap, but it will still probably spark a little if you short it.

[WilbyInebriated]

more fun. carefully remove only the xenon, taking care to leave the copper strip attached to the trigger coil and do not remove it with the xenon.
attach the ends of the fluoro tube to where the xenon was and tape the copper strip to the middle of the fluoro tube like it was on the xenon. 

if you break the copper strip from the trigger coil, or it is not removable, just try and leave yourself a usable lead from the trigger coil to attach to some aluminum foil which you will wrap around the fluoro.

[Thaelin]

Hi Pirate:
   Looked back but could not see the value of the cap. Did you by chance
get the value off of it?  Just curious of the uf and volts.

thaelin

[Freezer]

Hi Pirate:
   Looked back but could not see the value of the cap. Did you by chance
get the value off of it?  Just curious of the uf and volts.

thaelin

350v 100uF

@All, here's two connected to a fluorescent bulb, using 4 leads of the bulb. Shows brightness between 1 and 2.