Miniature light bulb with microchip shunt

Abstract

A light bulb, such as a miniature light bulb used in Christmas lighting, having a microchip shunt disposed inside the bulb and connected across the filament terminals or leads of the light bulb. If the light bulb is a flasher bulb, any series connected light string can be made to have a plurality of twinkling bulbs without the light string going out when one of these bulbs go out as is the case now when a single flasher bulb is inserted in a series connected light string. The microchip shunt can be back-to-back Zener diode, a diode array, a silicon triggered switch, a thyristor or a thermistor.

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