-> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to MARK LEWIS:

->  WC> I just took a TV flyback and made an external 8 turn winding center
->  WC> tapped and drove it with a push - pull oscillator made with hefty
->  WC> TO-3 transistors.
->  WC> Ran at about 20KHz and drew 10 - 11 amps at 12 volts.

-> That just seems awfully inefficient,  though...

Perhaps but I was impressed when it lit cardboard in just under 
a second.

->  WC> Got the idea from a books by a company still on the web I believe
->  WC> at www.amazing1.com IIRC

-> That's a good site,  still.

->  WC> Odd bunch of stuff there, much plausably works, of many I'm
->  WC> dubious. 

-> Looking at their page,  I can see what you mean there.

Heh, yeah.
The two projects I built from their plans worked as advertized however.

The second was a 2 transistor FM transmitter I built on perf board
that snapped atop a 9 volt battery.
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