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Hello everyone, i was wondering if there is any other way to wire up a disposable camera flash to a potato cannon without using a automobile igniton coil. Not by using steel wool, or touching the two wires together physically. I want to be able to jump the gap without using an ignition coil is this possible?

Yes you obviously didnt search enough, read: http://www.spudfiles.com/spud_wiki/inde ... mera_flash

Like Carlman said, read the wiki.

You can try a "Triggered spark gap" (it's on the wiki page). That setup is also called a trigatron.

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/camera.html
http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/trigatron.html

Not the most reliable method but it does work.