The 150V capacitor will blow up in that circuit because it will have AC across it but it is polarized.
Replace the big bulbs and the 150VF capacitor with a power resistor. Connect a 12V transformer to the mains by itself, but the 12V light bulb won't dim when the photo-flash capacitors are charged.
I found a 50 ohm 25watt resistor I will try.
I will do what you said and use the transformer. I will have to guess as to how long it will take the Caps to fully charge.
I disagree, the capacitor won't blow up as worst case it only conducts current the wrong way for half a cycle and even then it's in series with C2.
Thie only probelm is there needs to be bleeder resistors to discharge the circuit when it's disconnected. I'd be even tempted to install a relay that shorts the capacitors via a bleader when the power is disconnected.
Would one of you guys be kind enough to write a circuit out for me with this info
on it. This is going to be used as a magnetic pulser. Acording to Dr Robert Becks specs.
Thanks
I wanted to build this so I can put it all in a hobby box all self contained. I wanted to stay away from having the big ass bulbs and I wanted a light to either go out or light up when the Caps are fully charged.
Can one of you guru's draw me a circuit?
I'll pay you =)
By the way: I'm using 150 uf 330v caps five of them. And 100uf 160v up front.