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Building the Timer<\/strong><\/p>\nI soldered the main componenets to the board first, as there weren\u2019t that many of them. The chip holder, both switches and the adapter socket all got soldered on without any problems. After everything else was soldered on without a probelm, I still had 57 LED\u2019s to solder on. It seemed a little daunting at first, but after soldering on a few, I got more confident with it.<\/p>\n
Before long, I completed it. I was both excited to see it work, but dreading incase I\u2019d done it wrong. Only one way to find out though. So, we plugged it in and turned it on.<\/p>\n
And it worked! First time, without any hesitation. It shocked me. I thought I would have at least blown one of the LED\u2019s and that I\u2019d have to redo it. But it worked, and was ticking away slowly, perfectly content. We pressed one of the buttons I soldered on, and it sped up gradually with every button push. It was shockingly bright too. It surprised us both how luminous it was once plugged in. I\u2019m pretty confident that I could use it as a torch if I needed to.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019m extremely happy with the results, and it was such good fun. While I tend to doubt my ability of doing something I\u2019m not familiar with, I hope that I\u2019m tackling it with all these projects.<\/p>\n
Regardless, I am really excited for my next project.<\/p>\n
Cerys<\/p>\n
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