Mike Ring wrote:

A LED would have to have 228V dropped across it's resistor, at about 10
mill thats about 2.3 watts - definitely not the way to go

You could use 3 or 4 series rectifier diodes and wire the LED + resistor
across these - that would give you a suitable voltage drop to power a
small LED. You would also need a reverse diode to bypass the LED so that
when the reverse phase comes along your LED does not go pop!


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Cheers,

John.

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