Good day all.
I am busy trying to reverse-engineer a set of strobe tubes, so that I can build a controller for them (The original controller has run away).
Anyway, the strobes are long transparent plastic tubes, with 4 Xenon? U Shaped strobe tubes. These plastic tubes are connected together, and then they all flash in series (so if there are 5 tubes, you will get 20 strobe flashes, 1 after the other).
From what I can see, the controller just needs to pulse it's output on and off for each time a tube must flash. I hooked up a 555 circuit on a breadboard, and got the 1 tube to flash each tube in turn, but then it did not repeat the sequence (no matter what frequency, or how many pulses), hence my wanting to reverse engineer the circuit.
I am hoping that I have not gone totally awry with my reverse engineering, so I was wondering if anybody can just take a peek at the Xenon part of the circuit, to see if I am so far on the right track. If I am, then I can go on to the control circuit.
Thanks
Peter