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Bought in an act of boredom / desperation / panic in Fredericksburg, TX - in the year 2002. I think I got it at the Xmas-shop. www.christmasstorefred.com

Works acceptably for the first prototype. It certainly doesn't get warm at all. Further examination will need a scope. One pot sets the desired brightness, the other one the fade-delay. Might be found on tindie.com

If I had a precision lathe, I would try to make a sleeve to cover the weak spot. Solder will have to do the job for now.

It works rather nicely. The holes in the circuit board provide alignment of the pins.

This spring was part of a pogo-pin. It's diameter is about 500µm.

It broke off at a weak spot while cleaning the board a bit too vigorously. The reason for the weakness is that the brass tube was compressed in one spot (around its circumference) to keep the steel tip from slipping out. In an ideal world these pogo-pins should be mounted in such a way that the weak spot doesn't see and sideways force. Adding a sleeve might be advisable, or putting the whole thing into a suitable bore. I added a blog of solder.

Of course I knew that.