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Old 01-06-10, 07:28 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Buddahaid View Post
As an aside, I found you could drive about 15 LED's in parallel with a 556 in astable mode running about 60-70 Hz. directly from the output saving lots of battery power! The 555 doesn't have the source or sink current rating. No need for a load resistor either.
Is this guy typin English or is there something wrong with his keyboard?

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