2015-12-04

Flash and strobo tube data

During the last few days I tried in vain to locate online the base pinout of an octal xenon flash tube type STC150, like the one shown on the picture.  Finally I discovered a discared box of a related but physically different device, a Velleman S106A flash tube.
STC150

On the two sides of the card I discovered the pinouts of some flash tubes including the STC150, the associated trigger transformers, plus a small table with some technical data. I upload it here so they are available to anybody interested.

Connection diagrams for flash tubes and trigger transformers

 
Technical data for flash tubes.

The tubes included in this data sheet are the U-style S106A, S8538, S4668 and the octal base STC150.