none of this fancy flashing stuff,
unless you bought a "flashing bulb" which naturally flashed all the
bulbs in the string?


There was definatly another sort of flashing xmas light that only
flashed itself by shorting its filliment with the bimetal strip.
I had a chain with two or three of these in it. The rest of the chain
would brighten slightly of course, and this rather enhanced the
effect.
Something I used to do with all mains energised chains whether
flashing or not, is to put a series diode in the plug to dim them.
They looked better like this, and lasted much longer.






--
Graham.
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