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Re: [OM] Stupid mistake needs advice....

Subject: Re: [OM] Stupid mistake needs advice....
From: "Ian A. Nichols" <I.A.Nichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:52:40 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 HI100@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Tom ,
>         From your description of a fragile wire going to the flashtube its 
> sounds like the trigger wire. The thick wires should go to the ends of the 
> tube. The trigger wire should be wrapped around the outside of the tube near 
> (but not at) one end. If it is the trigger wire then it does not go to the pc 
> board itself but comes from one end of the trigger coil which is a small 
> cylindrical device (possible marked on the circuit board as T102)

Trigger coils are also sometimes known as pulse transformers, or pulse
coils, so the place on the board marked "Ptr"  (pulse transformer?) that
someone else alluded to might be a good place to try. 

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