Cricklewood Electronics

LED Lighthouse Solder Practice Kit

This simple flashing LED circuit is great for learning how to solder or to polish up on your soldering skills. It uses a 555 timer in the astable configuration to flash the LEDs continuously. The rate of flashing can be changed by adjusting the variable trimmer potentiometer R2 (f ≈ 0.3Hz-30Hz). It can be powered by a 9V PP3 battery (not supplied).

The kit is supplied with Yellow LEDs by default but you can choose Red, Blue, Green or White LEDs from the drop-down list above.