Re: LED pulse stretcher



Gaz wrote:
[...]I have a push botton that I want to press momentarily
and see a longer (say 1 second) illumination of the LED.

This concept is synonymous with "pulse stretcher":
http://www.google.com/images?q=monostable-multivibrator+schematic

A 555 can source 200mA:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:ellA67QUlNsJ:www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/NE/NE555.pdf+LM555+Figure.1+monostable+200mA+SOURCE
The link to the actual PDF is at the top of that page.
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