re hi volt from battery in article c ufig dv news cso uiuc edu martyj mrcnext cso uiuc edu martin johnson writes i need a small battery powered hi voltage capacitive discharge supply to deliver joules at volts the ubiquitous camera flash circuit is what i want but i cant get mine apart without breaking it charlie brett s suggestion buy one of the disposable flash cameras use the film then take the thing apart is a good one note though that you won t get a particularly precise voltage out of such a thing and it may be a single point design that won t adapt well to off nominal operation the things are easy to dismantle the key piece of information is that when you advance the film on one of them you are winding it into the film cassette it is unwound from the cassette in the factory when the camera is made so no darkroom is needed for dismantling it s standard film so just take the cassette in for processing all the camera store people do when you bring in one of the disposables is rip it apart toss the film cassette into the to be processed bin and throw the battery in one trashcan and the rest of the camera in another if you take it apart yourself you get an aa alkaline battery still with a fair bit of life in it and all kinds of little bits and pieces from the camera i expect you could even re load and re use the camera if you were really determined svr resembles a high speed collision henry spencer u of toronto zoology between svr and sunos dick dunn henry zoo toronto edu utzoo henry
