> Hmm, in view of the method of driving, I would use somewhere
> between 1k & 10k, and do away with the 1n4007 entirely by
> shorting it out

Now that I've seen the circuit does actually work (if you put the
transformer in the right way. Moving along....) it does seem to
tempt fate having the gate just float. And I'm not sure about that
diode either

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