LED whackiness?

**DONOTDELETE** · Dec 26, 2001

I tried to get onto Kevin Horton's LED site from Craig's webpage, but to no avail. the site seems to be down, or removed.

More specifically, I was interested in the LED that blinks until the Sun goes nova, as was the description on Craig's links page. So, does anyone have any info on this, or a similar idea? I'm assuming it was a homebrew project, and hopefully a not too difficult and expensive one.

Thanks.

Joe S.

B@rt · Dec 26, 2001

As far as I know, it was about a blinking led powered by solar cells and backed-up by a rechargable battery.
Maybe this will help you any further.

The_LED_Museum · Dec 26, 2001

Kevin's server is on the rag. He says he hopes to have his websites back up soon.

The_LED_Museum · Dec 26, 2001

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BlackBart:
As far as I know, it was about a blinking led powered by solar cells and backed-up by a rechargable battery.
Maybe this will help you any further.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I think it was backed up by a "super cap" and not a battery.

Jarhead · Feb 15, 2004

At least the super cap should outlast a battery, good idea.

WildRice · Feb 16, 2004

I read somthn a while back about energy suching antennas. just picks up stray RF. Heaven knows there is enough of that out there.

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Jeff

Doug Owen · Feb 28, 2004

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WildRice said:
I read somthn a while back about energy suching antennas. just picks up stray RF. Heaven knows there is enough of that out there.

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Oh, I'm not so sure about that. Now, if you made one that ran on hot air......or stupidity....

FWIW, we fiddled with this a lot of years ago. Broad band tuning and the best diodes we could find still didn't get us into the miliwatts (unless we cheated).

Doug Owen

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