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From: smithj@hpsad.HP.COM (Jim Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: timer
Message-ID: <1840031@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 22:17:46 GMT
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levi@bluemoon.uucp (Brandon Moore) writes:

>
>    Could anyone suggest a _cheep_ timer circuit for me?  By cheep I mean,
> an inexpensive, one-use only design, using cheep parts and no IC's, but
> still being fairly dependable.   Technicly, I need a timer which gives a
> delay after a mechinism is activated (pushed, turned, etc.) before
> discharging a current through another circuit attached by two leds.
>
> Levi

Cheap, one-use only, dependable delayed current discharge...

    ...Sounds like a bomb timer...  
                                     

          ...Ever heard of GPS, Brandon?

:-)