Tony Smith wrote:
> Still in production?  (If they got that far).
>
> Hard to beat simple, cheap, quite reliable & zero power.

But coils are simple, cheap, more reliable, and zero power too.  For a
commercial version you wind the coil so that it's output directly drives the
base of a transistor.


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