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Re: How to wire a flashlight?

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Originally Posted by Peyton Yeung View Post
Both when I was a senior in high school and this year (junior in college) we used a spike relay and voltage converter to turn on the flashlight through the PDP.

We used this flashlight. It's a 3V flashlight so we used this voltage converter. The flashlight was cut in half through the body and wires were added to the + terminal and the body (- side). This was connected to the voltage converter which was connected to the spike relay.
...Are the voltage converters from the years of the cRIO allowed? We still have ours.
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