<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 12, 2024, at 8:11 AM, Ingo Debus via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Anyone remember self-flashing incandescent lamps? They had a bimetal strip in them. Once heated up, the bimetal interrupted the current, the lamp cooled down causing the the strip bend into the other direction, giving contact again, and so on…<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Christmas light collector here. I have quite a few of those. They're becoming much less common these days.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some of the early midget bulb strings had a flasher with a candelabra base. Some of those were quite chaotic and fun to watch. They would partially close and then start buzzing which caused the bulbs to flicker, making them less bright.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 12, 2024, at 12:27 PM, Mr&MrsAccount <<a href="mailto:hbissell@wowway.com" class="">hbissell@wowway.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif;"><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">For you other ancient ones.. Remember they had "flasher buttons" that fit below the bulb in an Edison socket to turn any incandescent lamp into a flasher. EMI anyone ???</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">I used one of those every Halloween. I have a big red warning light that says "Laser Radiation Present" and I used one to make it flash. Those things get REALLY hot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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