[Shotimes] how do flashers work?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:11 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] how do flashers work?


James,

Then please help me understand.  LED's put out much more light with a 
lot less electricity.

They also require a resister in-line to make them equal the resistance 
of the older incandescent bulb. This is true even if you are using 
several LED's in place of one light bulb.   If they have much higher 
resistance, then why do they light up brighter and quicker with less 
juice?  I thought the higher the resistance, the higher the ohms of 
resistance?

Just asking

Don

James F. Ryan III wrote:

>>The LED's have a much lower resistance to electricity as I understand
>>it, thus it is like opening up a water faucet from a slow drip to
>>flood.  Things move faster!  :)
>>    
>>
>
>LED's have a MUCH HIGHER resistance.  High resistance = not a good
conductor
>= very little current flow.
>
>LED's and diodes are classified as SEMI-conductors (that's an easy memory
>aid).
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