I once saw these little red blinky lights on telescopes and other equipment at an astronomy event (so people see the stuff and don't walk into/break it). I was wondering if any of our astronomy-minded folks knew where I could acquire such a thing. I search around on Google and found huge lights, strobe lights, references to mysterious red blinking lights...
Anybody use something like this in your AE/astronomy stuff?
Bicycle lights!
Here's one for $9
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R5NRBM/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0017GA09W&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=09QT6ECJ98BAG6PTCP3Z
Just wrap it around a leg or if the bracket's removable use some double-sided tape. Battery-powered even.
hmm...that might work. The lights that I saw were small...like one LED. I wonder how bright these are comparatively.
Home Depot has them for about $2.00 up in the flashlight section
Really?! I must look. Do you know what they're supposed to be?
They sell them as clip ons for safety vests for worker, joggers bike riders etc.
hmm. I will try them. Thanks.
Lowe's has something like what you describe in the flashlight section
also.
Is it a single LED?
Yes, very similar to these:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/200170447/strobe_light_Flash_Reflector_button_blinking_reflector_warning_light_button_Flash_Reflector_Safety_Button_LED_Reflector_Light.html
but without a logo on the front.
Sweet. I shall check out these options. Thank you.
If anyone else knows of others, lemme know.
On my telescope I occasionally just put a blinking LED and button cell battery from radio shack that I wired together.