> Wow, that is an impressive page.  Nice work!   

Thank you very much

It's still under construction. Unfortunately I've got bogged down
in a couple of favours that have turned into time-eating monsters
or I'd be playing around with breaking things/blowing stuff up for
more pictures and making the PCBs and s/w presentable. And
now I've found out my neighbour has an airgun and a 22 and
there's a new series of Timewarp started ........

I haven't included descriptions or s/w for the PICs yet, but briefly
the 18F1320 is a timer with settable delay from trigger, repeat
delay and number of flashes (hence the tactswitches). The 16F628
triggers the flashes, from 1 at a time to 10 at a time (bright !), the
16F88 is a delay timer from the shutter via the hot shoe. I wanted
this to separate the camera's internal front or rear curtain flash from
external flashes to give for example flash, movement, flash, movement,
flash, which gives a picture some dynamics

New 22uF are used, although disposables have 80 - 160uF. I did
it my way to get the repeat rate up, but I'm considering FETs to
switch in the disposable caps for extra power. I think it's simpler
and more versatile to make a number of smaller flash units that can
be fired individually or in unison rather than attempt one large unit.
It would also be possible to put different-coloured filters in front
of each tube for example. I've lots of other notes and points which
will be on the page eventually once I've stopped doing people
favours ;-)

wbr
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