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Old 27th Feb 2019, 1:10 am   #19
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Default Re: Are there any Ex GPO engineers here? Dorman Lamps

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Originally Posted by julie_m View Post
I'm fairly sure the subject of my little impromptu teardown did not have a light sensor in it; I think the transistors might have been wired in a deadly embrace, dumping the capacitor's contents into the lamp filament and resetting it for the next cycle.

I'm probably going to have to try breadboarding a few circuits now, just to see if I can reproduce it .....

I don't remember any light sensor either in the one I reverse engineered around 1973. I can't find my circuit, but this one attached below looks pretty similar.
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