{"id":5261,"date":"2012-12-10T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2013-01-03T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T04:14:21","slug":"2012-12-10-blinker-flasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"2012-12-10 Blinker Flasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=5639\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5639\" title=\"DSC_0042BW\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0042BW-300x188.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0042BW-300x188.gif 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0042BW.gif 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This flasher is an ancient design using a 3V lamp.\u00a0 The battery is 6V, with a lot (maybe half) of the power being wasted in the 10 ohm resistor.\u00a0 A LED could be used in place of the lamp, with better, brighter results.\u00a0 Use a 1W LED or else use several regular 5mm LEDs in parallel.\u00a0 The flasher draws very low power when it isn&#8217;t flashing, which helps save batteries.\u00a0 If the right parts are chosen, it might work at 4.5V or even at 3V if red, orange, amber or yellow LEDs are used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This flasher is an ancient design using a 3V lamp.\u00a0 The battery is 6V, with a lot (maybe half) of the power being wasted in the 10 ohm resistor.\u00a0 A LED could be used in place of the lamp, with better, brighter results.\u00a0 Use a 1W LED or else use several regular 5mm LEDs in<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=5261\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5634,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}