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>Posted on 1 Mar 1995 at 07:16:33 by DYER, BILL

>........ ....the bulbs do pop on switch on every time.
>I suppose a capacitor in parallel with the bulb would help.
>I'll do some experimentation.

I think the thermal inertia of the bulb will keep it cold
way past the point in time where your capacitor is full.


What I suggest as the solution to your problem is a MOSFET
based inrush limiter. It requires a bit of room which you might not
have.  But you could remove one battery, put in the MOSFET circuit
and run the light with 5 NiCads and a standard 6V halogen bulb.
( *Not* "6V" though as in bulbs intended for 4 alkaline cells as
those bulbs are really rated for ohhhh 5.0 volts or something).

I'll send you my 350 lines write-up on the MOS circuit separately.

john 015

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