On 6/16/2006 12:13 PM Kim Brennan wrote: > If the LED glows dimly and then goes out, you may have > 1) weak battery (not enough voltage and it can't spark Isn't the sparker a piezo sparker? They don't use batteries. For example, see http://madsci.org/posts/archives/dec98/914741561.Eg.r.html A dim LED that goes out suggests to me that there was sufficient heat (flame) at the burner to light the lamp, but it did not get very hot and it went out. Not a bad sparker, else there would not have been any lamp lighting at all. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") KG6RCR |
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