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Subject: RE: [motm] oh no - lightbulb joke approaching:

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2001-04-05

You mean it's not real gas? You've spoiled the magic! ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: The Old Crow [mailto:oldcrow@...]
Sent:Thursday, 05 April, 2001 3:28 PM
To:motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject:Re: [motm] oh no - lightbulb joke approaching:


Oddly enough, Disney does exactly this for simulating gaslamp flicker.
Their light source is a cluster of neon bulbs with simple RC charging
circuits attached, each with a different time constant. LDR feeds lamp
dimmer circuit.