That was very interresting to see the difference when the tank is damped. I thought that might be a problem, but I wasn't sure how everything interracts in that type of circuit. One question though, Mike says that the Hi Ni bcp-16 has over 2500H of inductance compared to the 750H you used, which when put into the spread sheet, if I am using it right, would give me a series resistor of 79.5k along with the .66u cap. Is this one of those times where in practice there is a certain point where it doesn't matter if the value is higher?
As an aside, I was origionally going to use your delay circuit, and then had boards made up for it using 1200v schottkeys. Then I read your post on the bottlehead forum about the necessary voltage for safety and decided it would be easier to just use a 5u4 than get new boards with stacked uf4007s and one schottkey. My question is, do you know if that circuit would work in the seduction? Or should I just save them for another project?
Thanks for the help,
Chris