Re: LED 'smoothing' question

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:48:48 -0800, Joerg wrote:
frenchy wrote:

Well...it's not basic but I used a PIC microcontroller to solve that
problem.

To add - this would need to be something connected directly to the bulb,
or between the bulb and the voltage going to it, I can't modify the
circuitry that's sending the power to the bulbs.

Do you know what kind of circuitry that is? Reason I ask is that it might
not like a capacitive load.

The electronic pinballs & such that I used to fix used SCRs and half-wave
rectified AC. To turn the light on, you'd bias the SCR's gate, to turn it
off, you'd ground the gate.

So I don't think an LED circuit would hurt it - what I'd try is replace
the dropping resistor with two of half the value, in series, with a cap
from the junction to power return.

Have Fun!
Rich

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