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Date:         Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:02:49 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: curious behaviour of interior led lights
Comments: To: Richard Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <4C422DE2.9010702@colorado.edu>
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At 06:25 PM 7/17/2010 Saturday, Richard Jones wrote: >Years ago I put a little cube module in the ceiling of my old 911 >that does that. I assume it has a capacitor in it that just >stores some juice to keep the light on and as it runs out >the light dims out.

Hi Richard -- You have no idea what an absolutely enormous capacitor it would take to do that. Just as a very rough guess (within two orders of magnitude, say) it would fill your front seat. No doubt a capacitor is involved, but it will be used for timing, not energy storage.

:) d


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