Right again! I had been trying it w/ a 9v battery, nothing from the
laser tubes, but it can still give a pretty nice shock. Tonight I
hooked up one of the supplies to a head and a 12v power supply I had
laying around...No lasing but the tube did light up...blue
(noncoherent) light came out the ends so it's def. not a good tube
but I've got 19 more where it came from to try...not keeping my hopes
up though, some of them had test dates written on them...1973...and not
all of them were good even then.
If you noticed my other post, my HV meter is out of comission at the
moment...but since the tube lights up I figure I got the input voltage
right. Don't know if the heads or the power supply have starters built
in though...or is the higher starting voltage just something that
happens naturally w/ the power supply?
On another note, the supply I mentioned before that I was able to peel
some rubber from...I worked on it some more and got a good amount
off...If you want to take a look at it or know more about it for your
reverse-engineering endeavours, let me know