LED pulse stretcher



Hello,

can anyone please point me to a circuit that I can use to stretch the
on time of an LED when the on pulse is small? I have a push botton
that I want to press momentarily and see a longer (say 1 second)
illumination of the LED.

Many thanks in advance.

Gaz
.



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