During the holiday, I saw a tree with the old C9 incan flasher bulbs. Those are the bulbs which have an internal bi-metal contactor which causes that bulb to flash on and off.
I was thinking that the modern LED light strings can do all sorts of effects, such as chaser motions, color changing, and much more. But I dont see any way to make individual LEDs to randomly flash like these old C7 or C9 bulbs.
I'm assuming that it's possible, but each LED in a string would need to be wired individually, and each LED have it's own flasher, which operates at a different speed from others on that string.
Even then, I doubt the EXACT effect would occur, because the incan bulbs have a slight "fade" as they light up and turn off, whereas a LED is instant ON or OFF.
How difficult would it be to mimic the effect of these old C7 and C9 Flasher bulbs, and how would it be achieved?