i want to make a flashing led light for a car alarm...anybody have an idea how to do it...i can get the led to stay on as a constant but i want it to blink like once every 2 or 3 seconds...a diagram would be awesome too..i tried to google but couldnt really find anything

 

if i'm not mistaken you need a flasher relay.....

 

something i can pick up for a few bucks at like autozone or something?

 

Yup

 

Yup U hook it all up and get the Flasher Relay so it blinks Ill try to find the booklet I have on my alarm it showed me how to make one

 

alright awesome thanks guys...

 

wouldn't it be easier with a battery some diodes and a small capacitor ?

 

You can buy a blinking LED. They sell them at radio shack.

 

This thread makes me laugh. You don't actually have an alarm do you? You're just trying to make it appear as if you have one, right?

Every alarm I know of "blinks" the l.e.d. automatically.

 

thanks Eran .....yes go buy a blinking led i thought you guys were gonna let this guy hang his self

 

ha indeed...but it would scare people away...people around here wont touch a car with an alarm...unless they are ballsy

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jr000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ha indeed...but it would scare people away...people around here wont touch a car with an alarm...unless they are ballsy</TD></TR></TABLE>

Way to give up your ingenious plan on the internet.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jr000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ha indeed...but it would scare people away...people around here wont touch a car with an alarm...unless they are ballsy</TD></TR></TABLE>

good thing you're not in CA

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Eran &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Way to give up your ingenious plan on the internet.</TD></TR></TABLE>

+1 on that

 

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good thing you're not in CA </TD></TR></TABLE>
x2 million!

 

well...if thats the case, why dont you go to the discount store and get one of these flashers people use at night when they drive a bicycle....