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by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:34 pm
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

http://www.part.lt/img/4f053f4c3afc1f95f6751f74b071d95a783.jpg http://www.part.lt/img/c66aae2fee7be9a8caf392c12b15be25316.jpg http://www.part.lt/img/74f0d89e5479cb9b12b0b1596fc9f013956.jpg I mounted everything in air, just using few wires and made smaller HV transformer. I also improoved my circuit...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:46 am
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

Mark, do you have any good advices how to wind HV transformer? I need small but powerfull one...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:46 am
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

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 compo...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:21 pm
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

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...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:53 am
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

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 s...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:39 am
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

Welcome to spudfiles / sveiki! 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 self ...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:37 pm
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

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 cont...
by RICHARDakaCHUCK
Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:24 am
Forum: General How-To & Discussion
Topic: Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$
Replies: 30
Views: 22846

Infinite lifetime spud gun igniter for 3$

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...