Think I found a different spec, there are photographic and signalling parts which are very similar, but slightly different dimensions.
I think I'm looking at one with a voltage of min 260, typ 300, max 360, 6 WS max per pulse.
That looks very similar to the voltage of a normal strobe tube, just more capacitance. Promising! How much capactiance would I use?
I sort of want to do something spiffy too. If I use 3 strobes with red, green, and blue filter, I'd be able to flash unusual colors. I'm aware they'd each need their own cap, although I think I can use diodes so they can be fed off the same power supply.
Any ideas as to something to use for color filters? I'd want to do something with some basic quality, not injet transparencies or anything. They'd need to be fairly small, and arranged so that one is not in front of the other. They'd probably need to be stacked vertically.