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Title: Help with coin door lights
Post by: gedman on August 06, 2017, 07:40:37 pm

My coin door has two #555 wedge base bulbs.  The bulbs are 6.3V and .25 amps. I'm trying to figure out the best way to light them.

I really have no idea what I'm doing, but based on reading lots of posts here, it seems that there are two common options:
1) Hack a wall wart.  I have one which provides 6.5V and 500 miliamps.
2) Hack a 5V DC line and ground line from my PC.

Is the wall wart powerful enough to power both bulbs?

I really have no idea what I'm doing here, but I really want to get the coin door lights working.  Advice and some newbie-level direction is greatly appreciated :)

Gedman

Title: Re: Help with coin door lights
Post by: yotsuya on August 06, 2017, 08:04:10 pm

Hack a 5V DC line and ground line from your PC. Easy Peasy.

Title: Re: Help with coin door lights
Post by: gedman on August 07, 2017, 12:38:23 am

Done.  Looks great.  Thanks.