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Re: do it yourself strobes . . .

Subject: Re: do it yourself strobes . . .
From: Robert L. Nuckolls III <nuckolls@aeroelectric.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:49:21
 nge.lmcda.lmco.com>

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>Bob Nuckolls wrote: Snip>
>> Plan on needing the dummy load to keep the system voltage from pulsing when
>>this size lamp is flashed. <end

>>Wouldn't it be simpler to use two lights one on the left wing and one on the
>>right. The Wiring could be configured such that the dummy load for one was
>>the light of the other i.e. one light is always on. The only voltage
>>fluctuation, apart from the high frequency transient, would be caused by the
>>differing hot to cold resistance of the filament.

   Tried that . . . it WOULD have been nice. Problem was to control the
   spheres of visability so that both lights were never visible at the
   same time. If you could see them both, then from a distance beyond the
   visual accuity limits for resolving them as a pair of lights, they
   appeared as a single, always illuminated lamp . . . i.e. flashing
   stopped.  Turned out to be such a hassle that the resitor went in instead.


      Bob . . .
      AeroElectric Connection

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