YES need the coils, wont oscillate otherwise
HOLY, the coils ARE necessary, BOTH of them !!
HV only thru the load to ground, neg, air, wire, wont lite my lights, and shows 240mA draw,
WITH both coils, the lights light up and current draw goes down to below approx 100mA (on digital) to light up 4x 3watt LEDs
I just confirmed my analog and my digital meter are correct, and reading within 10mA of eachother....
****one other thing i noticed tho as well is the circuit glitched my meter, and read 50mA, then restarted, then read100mA, then reatarted, then read 40mA.
And it had to do with the startup... the meter in the circuit was the only factor.
So i think the circuit in the meter was affecting current draw on startup, so confirm that your analog meter is accurate by load comparison, but use an analog meter !!!
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HV only thru the load to ground, neg, air, wire, wont lite my lights, and shows 240mA draw,
WITH both coils, the lights light up and current draw goes down to below approx 100mA (on digital) to light up 4x 3watt LEDs
I just confirmed my analog and my digital meter are correct, and reading within 10mA of eachother....
****one other thing i noticed tho as well is the circuit glitched my meter, and read 50mA, then restarted, then read100mA, then reatarted, then read 40mA.
And it had to do with the startup... the meter in the circuit was the only factor.
So i think the circuit in the meter was affecting current draw on startup, so confirm that your analog meter is accurate by load comparison, but use an analog meter !!!
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