[SML] 12V flicker fire effect?

[Jason Salvatori]

Car turn signal clickers, from different models or manufacturers.
Put 5 or 6 in parallel with a bulb on each.  They'll all run at
different rates, so you get a random flicker.

Another way I've done it is with a 12v motor, an arm with the 12v+ on
it, and intermittent traces on a circular disc that connect to the
bulbs, but that was a lot more work to build and worked less reliable.

Jason

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Stuart Wheaton via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> On 1/22/2015 7:49 PM, Jon Ares via Stagecraft wrote:
>>
>> I just know someone's done this... and probably many times....
>>
>> I need to create a 'cordless' (battery powered) burn barrel....
>> flickery flame light action... I've done this many times using AC
>> current/dimmers and fluorescent starters, but never with 12V DC. Any
>> suggestions? Anything exist to make 12V lights flicker?
>>
>> (Short of getting a 4-channel wireless dimmer... just can't afford
>> that. I do have wireless DMX, which luckily runs off of 12V as well.)
>>
> Silk, fan, MR-16 lamp...   Actually in the bottom of a barrel you can
> replace the silk with something like mylar strips, if they flutter in the
> fan and the light bounces off them, it'll look fine. Use 2-3 MR-16's with a
> few different colors...
>
>
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