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I received the caps this week and was anxious to get one hooked up.  I had already put together a little wiring harness to plug into the timer module, power supply and the LEDs. I had planned to solder the cap to the module. I was ready and all I needed was the cap.

6B2D268A-F513-4BDF-814B-7854556A5158Everything worked as expected.  No flash, on after 10 seconds.  Wahoo. Hooked up a second one. Set it for 20 seconds.  Another wahoo!  

I then started to think about how to simplify and eliminate as much wire as possible.  Here is the final configuration I settled on.

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One lead on each transistor was crimped directly into the connector. The leads that needed to connected together were folded to one side and soldered together.    The last two leads were folded in the other direction and a black wire added to connect to the LEDs.  Much simpler and more compact. If I was to order more modules I think I would get the ones without the connector and solder directly to the board.  That way it would lay flat.

Stan, I greatly appreciate you assistance in helping me with both your time and knowledge.  This is not something I would have ever been able to figure out myself.

I started this quest looking for a method of varying the on time of lights in my buildings.  I didn’t want to buy modules that I would need to learn to program.  Didn’t want to spend $10+ for each building. And I had hoped to find an out of the box solution.  While this isn’t an out of the box solution the journey to get here was a good one.  I enjoyed it. Learned a lot and am pleased with the final solution.  Changing the delay by dip switch is great.  Hopefully this weekend I will get the time to start putting these together.  

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