[sdiy] my annual DIY holiday project

[Paddock, Toby]

A way to increase the "cross-twinkler modulation" is to raise the power
source impedance. I use a 2nd string of non-twinkers wired in series. The
more of these bulbs unscrewed, the less power for the twinklers to fight
over. Changes from independent blinkers to a chaotic system. I think that's
chaotic. But I'm not too sure what chaos is and isn't. 

Also, I was thinking that a string of non-blinking bulbs would be good in
series with something you wanted to power up slowly. Like something with old
caps. Screw in bulbs one at a time. Kind of like a cross between a single
light bulb and a variac. Kind of a "soft variac".

Happy blinking,
Toby

Coming soon: C7 Twinkle Clusters
http://and-oar.org/and_oar1.html



David Cornutt wrote:
> 
> What kind of chaos does 150 blinking lights produce?
> Get a bunch of phototransistors, put different colored bits of
> acetate over each one, run them into opamps, and use the
> outputs as control voltages. :-)