Mains powered flyback driver for HV source?

Has anyone tried a mains-powered driver circuit for a flyback with a
hand-wounded secondary to be used as a HV source? I've been
experimenting with the common two-transistor driver design (with great
sucess), but it needs 12-24VDC, and i want to keep the design as simple
as possible as i want to build two small standalone HV displays (a
Jacob Ladder and a Plasma Globe, both working fine already). I know
about mains powered devices and safety (specially with HV).

So, i came along this site (
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5322/simpleign.htm ), which
describes two of such circuits. The first one is particularly
interesting to me; a dimmer and a capacitor in series with the coil -
as simple as it gets. It would be great if i could use a
dimmer/resistor and a fuse for safety, but what kind of performance can
i expect to get from such a circuit as opposed to a pulsed-drive
current one like the two-transistor design or the second one in that
page? Can anyone comment on these?

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