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Thanks Sloucher
The only thing I did was to drop resistor 1 down to 470ohms to give a faster on time but without your help I wouldn't have even gotten that far.
I was back to the build last night so with any luck I should have some good photos of my progress later today.

Only just noticed your post Kila. You could try the second circuit in the link that brt posted (ie the one for duty cycles less than 50%) with values of: R1 = 2.4K R2=33K C1=47uFd That'll give you 0.078s on and 1.07s off (0.867Hz) if thats close enough to what you want? Got the bits and pieces yest...

Only just noticed your post Kila. You could try the second circuit in the link that brt posted (ie the one for duty cycles less than 50%) with values of: R1 = 2.4K R2=33K C1=47uFd That'll give you 0.078s on and 1.07s off (0.867Hz) if thats close enough to what you want? Hey thanks mate, I was start...

Thanks for the replies guys. I perhaps should ad that I'm VERY novice at this sorta thing. I know how to get the right resistors for one or LEDs but anything else is alien to me :D I've played around with that calculator a bit but everything I put in gives a similar on time to the off time. What wou...

Hi guys, hopefully someone can help. I need to build a flashing LED circuit for my DS9 build. I have a 555 chip as I understand thats the best to use? Thing is, the only calculators I can find online will calulate a flash rate when resistors and capacitor rating are inputted. What I would like to kn...