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A 1.5 Volt, 1970’s Style LED Flashing Red Caboose Marker Light using tiny microcontroller

A circuit that drives a red LED from a 1.5 volt battery and simulates an incandescent light. Duty cycle can be changed by selecting resistor values. Photo 1. This printed circuit board is 3 cm long. The first prototype was made with through hole parts. This is a single sided surface mount board with one

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Series Connected Voltage Boost Circuit for a Battery Operated LED Lantern

Photo. This is the test circuit -the basic driver is only two transistors, two resistors, the circuit was evaluated using a white LED, but when it was time to button it up and archive it, I replaced the expensive white LED with a cheap green one. Othere LED Driver Circuits on this site: White LED

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Remote Controlled (R/C) Airplane LED Flasher using ATTINY12 microcontroller

Downloads Download the AVRStudio assembly source for the program: T12astrobe081028A Download the AVRStudio assembly source for the include file: T12astrobe081028A.hex Find updates at www.projects.cappels.org Overview This was designed to flash a pair of LEDs to be mounted on the wing tips of a Parkzone Citabria R/C (remote control) airplane. The unmodified Parkzone Citabria only weights 

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Single and Two Cell White LED Drivers Without Inductors

Three inductor-free circuits that allow a white LED or UV LED to be driven from one (1.5 volt) or two flashlight cells (3 volts total) are described. The circuits on this page are: The two cell (3 volt) circuit four transistors. The simple single cell (1.5 volt) circuit requires six transistors, but it isn’t as

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1 Watt White LED Power Supply Circuit for battery operation

Download FreePC project file, gerber and png copper and silk-screen: 1wattledbuck.zip Introduction I have some 1 watt warm white LEDs left over from a project and the application for them was obvious: A better battery operated lamp for use when the power fails, which it does frequently, especially during the rainy season. And this one should

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