Joh Drinda

Since these starters are very expensive, I thought of soldering a few myself. I saw a SIDAC circuit and bought a few of them, but it failed to work! I must be doing something wrong! My tube has no capacitor. Maybe it's that why it won't work? Here's a page that shows more of how they work: https://www.bristolwatch.com/ele/sidac.htm I'm in N-Australia and we got 240VAC, so I built this circuit: