An LED is commonly used as a "power on" indicator for many electronic devices. For the LED to produce discernible visible light in daylight, the forward-bias current needs to be in the moderate range ...

LTspice is a free version of spice from Linear Technology, and it is delightfully easy to use, intuative, and seems to work rather well. Note, there is a flasher version 3 Current through component ...

Recently I converted the parking lights/turn signals and the taillights/turn signals in my 1956 Chevrolet to LEDs. The good part is they are really bright; the bad part is now the turn signals won't ...

Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised, the led flasher modelled in LTspice works, just about as intended – nice crisp flashes at about the right rate. Seeing as everything is relying on Vbes and Vfs, the ...