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    Triggering a Marx generator.

    I just got home from work for a more comprehensive reply. I have a blog on my photography . I've published an ebook on photographing explosions, I have a blog article from my book on wiring up an SCR to the camera flash circuit, and I've made a Trigatron and wired it up to my camera flash...
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    Triggering a Marx generator.

    Ok, I have wired up an 800 volt 11000 amp SCR to dump a 500 volt 3300uf capacitor through a piece of wire. I'm an automotive electrician and regularly work with over 50000 volts. I have a lot of experience with high voltages.
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    Triggering a Marx generator.

    Thanks very much for the input :) When it is "freewheeling" it pulses quite nicely. Regarding pulsing the spark gap I see what you mean about the possibility of it backfiring through the generator, however I did actually have the spark jumping the gap several times without the system...
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    Triggering a Marx generator.

    Here's an example of a spark at 1/4000th sec through sugar. This was the flash circuit I used to trigger that spark. And this is an SCR dumping 300 volts from a 3300uf capacitor through a piece of copper wire at 1/1000th sec.
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    Triggering a Marx generator.

    Hi, I'm new here and was hoping that someone could help with a really special project I have in mind :) I have built a simple Marx generator and have a more powerful version on its way which will hopefully give me 20cm sparks. At the moment it charges and discharges about twice a second but I...
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