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I mounted everything in air, just using few wires and made smaller HV transformer. I also improoved my ...

Mark, do you have any good advices how to wind HV transformer? I need small but powerfull one...

I have nothing aginst these pjezoelectric ignitors, excep their lifetime. They will die ater few thousand ignitions... My aim is to make simple, cheap, powerful and compact ignitor which will last forever. And i mean MAKE not buy. I want something which I could make from scrap materials or buy ...

Solid state switch I changed into machanic button and instead of 555 timer I used 2 transistors. It's cheaper in this way. And another reason is that it is realy hard to get such things like ic's in my town so I designed something different...

I have some polish blood too... But I live in Lithuania.
Thanks, I'm going to show much more. 8) Now I'm really interested in cheap, simple and compact ignitor research.
http://ultimatespudgun.com/30kv-igniter-p-219.html
The shortcut above is one good example of good ignitor. And I'm going to make ...

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Nice! Did you use google translator or have anything familiar with LTU?

Looks very nice. I tried making one of those with this schematic:

Plan 2
http://www.personalarms.com/schematics.htm

But I could get the 1k to 200k transformer. Is there a way I could make my ...

Hmm... Sorry, I haven't seen it... But still... Its finished version, low price, few parts which can be founded in TV or even old tube radio. And if you use no PCB and conect everything just one lead to another it can be fitted in the spud gun handle. Those made of whole flyback transformer has ...

I have designed cheap and pretty powerful igniter which can give about 2cm sparks. Uses 9v battery which lasts about 1 hour non stop operation. Using just to ignite the gas it would be enough for ~6000 shots for one battery.
I used scrap parts so it costed nothing, usually it would cost about 3 $ if ...