This is probably the simplest idea to generate flashing light from an LED using AC. The circuit is relatively the simple way of flashing one or more LEDs from a high voltage DC obtained from Mains.

An LED is commonly used as a "power on" indicator for many electronic devices. For the LED to produce discernible visible light in daylight, the forward-bias current needs to be in the moderate range ...

LTspice is a free version of spice from Linear Technology, and it is delightfully easy to use, intuative, and seems to work rather well. Note, there is a flasher version 3 Current through component ...

For a 60-cell crystalline silicon module with three parts, the LED flasher can flash high, medium and low light to test each bypass diode. Schär demonstrates how the first area of illumination is ...