help with ignition

deathtodeer666 · Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:20 am

okay i just got 5 kodak funsaver cameras and took them apart they all fired with the flash tube in them but after taking it out and ataching alligator clips and lining them up like it says an the angel fire.com how to it wont fire unless i touch the leads together. I cant get the spark to jump the gap.

someone help me please i've looked at every how to i could find.

FreakyShotGlass · Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:22 pm

I can't find the info on angelfire can u please give a link or a diagram from the site.

deathtodeer666 · Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:11 pm

[url]http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/cam ... l[url]here you go good luck i have the same camera he had actually I got five so if any one can tell me how to connect them i would appreiciate it.

FreakyShotGlass · Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:24 pm

Make sure that the trigger wire coming from the transformer is close enough to the two electrodes from the capacitor.

deathtodeer666 · Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:12 pm

Okay It works now but the electrodes are really toughy and it dosent fire every time

FreakyShotGlass · Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:16 am

Good to hear that u got it to work
Happy Spudding

deathtodeer666 · Wed Dec 21, 2005 10:55 pm

I cant belive out of five cameras only one workes, o well its still free.

deathtodeer666 · Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:20 pm

here is a pic I took with the worst digital camera ever the red blur is the light I took out and out on wires the grey wires are the trigger and charging buttons,red is the ignition wires and black is to the led,I might put in a discharging switch and a battery on off switch.

Bonggoggles · Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:27 pm

Hey does anyone have a picture of how to wire the charger button to a remote switch. I have the ignition wires set and the trigger wires are also good to go but I have to manually push the charge button on the board. I dropped out of electronics class the second week and I cant solder for sh*t, so a visual would be great. I tried to look at the diagram that was mentioned a few posts ago, but it might as well have been written in Chinese. Any help would be appreciated.

Copperboy · Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:12 am

You could also try connecting your camera cap. to a ignition coil. It'll boost the voltage a bit, and probably make the spark gap without the "help electrode".

Technician · Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:32 am

deathtodeer666 man I give you points for having a work-bench with such character. I really thought that mine was the only one that looked like that.