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Re: Music Stand Lights

Author: BartHx
Date: 2015-04-16 04:09

WhitePlainsDave: That is actually what I use. I got tired of dealing with AAA batteries and rarely am in a location where I can plug in. I figured there must be a better way. I spent thirty years as an entire high school science department, so I had the background to set it up. I did not want to go over the normal voltage for the LEDs in the light and shorten their life. However, with the 6v battery and pot, I can keep them at full brightness even when the battery is nearing the end of its life (I get a warning well before I have to put up with dimming lights). And, yes, I am old enough to remember Rube Goldberg. I tend to be a bit of one myself. I am honored by your reference to him in comparison to myself. I used to give my physics students an assignment where they had to put a golf ball in a hole in the side of a box and have it come back out of the box via a hole at a higher level. No electricity or wind-up motors were allowed -- just put the ball in the lower hole and have it come out the higher hole. Some of them got really creative. They were allowed to have a set-up that needed to be reset in order to repeat.

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