Re: My findings on 555 Ign. Coil spark maker thingys

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Original poster: "Bob Bozarth by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jbdetails-at-prodigy-dot-net>

    Believe it or not... I'm working on that right now. I've been saving
some photo diodes that I've stripped from various sources. Great Idea
though. Great minds.....
    Bob Bozarth
    Experimenter


> I hope thes helps. Use a seperate LM78xx voltage regulator to supply power
> to your 555 and an opto-isolator on the output of your 555. The
> opto-isolator is just a LED and a photo diode coupled together you can
buy,
> make. or strip one out of an old floppy drive,
>    Robert  H
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