Hello, I have opened an old Eprom eraser machine to replace the UVC lamp.
Please look at the attached scheme.
Starter is manual (pushing a button) and I found PINS shorted with a bridge!
Now anyway the new lamp works
(it turns on when I push the button after some times), but I do not know if the circuit is correct
. I knew that the capacitor and the starter should have been both in parallel with the lamp and the pins not-shorted...
Do you suggest to modify it? If it works can be dangerous someway or makes shorter the lamp's life? Why did they design such scheme (how does it works? is it like a tesla coil?
).
Thanks
Please look at the attached scheme.
Starter is manual (pushing a button) and I found PINS shorted with a bridge!
Now anyway the new lamp works
Do you suggest to modify it? If it works can be dangerous someway or makes shorter the lamp's life? Why did they design such scheme (how does it works? is it like a tesla coil?
Thanks