happycheapskate
Active Member
This is why they just call it "The Shack" now. There is no more Radio Shack except for a few popular small parts. Try a computer supply megastore or real ham radio forums.
The parts aren't available at my local Radio Shack... I asked for a few of these, even had the Radio Shack part numbers... problem seemed to be, I wasn't buying a cellular phone or flat TV so they weren't prepared for me. The poor young woman at the store, attractive as she may have been didn't know what a zener diode was. They did have some PC boards though. Kinda sad what they've become lately.
I did manage to get the parts (from another place in Tulsa) and with my lovely wife wondering what I was doing, I put the circuit together. It's the first component-level soldering I've ever done! And it works great. Only difference in my setup is the battery, and the power resistor. I accidentally got a 10 watt instead of a 5 watt, and my battery is a 2.5 ah instead of a 1.3. I had an old spotlight with a 2.5 ah 6v SLA battery and used it.
-Mark