Hack a flash camera into a emergency strobe light

Step 6 Going further... Make the strobe flash faster...

Okay, if you want your strobe to flash faster, you need to change the capacity of the flash capacitor to a lower rating.
You can change the 80uF capacitor to any capacitor that has a capacity from 80uF to 1uF as long as the capacitor has a voltage rating from 330v.
The smaller the capacitor you use, the faster the strobe will flash, but the dimmer the flash will be... Don't use a capacitor that has a capacity lower than 1uF because the strobe will make dim flashes.

There are two movies that you can watch, one movie (P3230005) is the strobe flashing with a 80uF capacitor and the other movie (P3230001) is the strobe flashing with a 1uF capacitor.

If you are going to watch the movie P3230001, the interesting flash pattern you see on the video, the strobe does NOT make that flash pattern! It is my video camera functioning improperly!

Comments

[someniceguyon]

the second one does look a great deal brighter, but it also looks like you put it in paint and erased a portion of the picture to make it look brighter. Idk what the point of that was since seeing the outline of the flash itself, it really is brighter

[someniceguyon]

Lol, I completely forgot about this whole thing from what? About 10 months ago? Anyways, thanks guys for reminding me of this sweet site. I don't think you meant to, but that's what happened lol.

[Khord]

He captured the flash pictures from a low quality video source that couldn't handle the intense amount of light, and therefore showed plain white at the brightest spots where it flashed out that area of the CCD. Typically phone cameras or webcams do this, and can even break if exposed to bright light like that for more than a few seconds.

[qwertyzzz18]

He did not put it in paint. It is just lens flare

[technoguy94]

So...does the flash come from the original flash bulb or the new one you put where the lens was?