I'm interested to know if your Rehwum unit will keep flashing reliably for a long time?
The units made by Artcraft in Australia were specifically designed for the flashing application with extra large vents in the body of the lamp to allow fresh air in quickly and an extra large vent hole in the top to allow as much partially unburnt kerosene out.
Nevertheless, the flashing lamps suffered from incomplete combustion and carbon deposits built up more quickly so the top inner baffle was removable to facilitate cleaning.
Even with all these measures the lamps would not reliably flash for say 12 hours and inevitably there was a build up of fumes inside the lamp that would affect the flashing quite often leading to the lamp self extinguishing, the main reason apart from cost that they were not very popular here.
BTW Erik claimed that Rhewum (Nicoln) did not make a flashing version of their lamp and that the animated gifs on his site were of a Rhewum that was deliberately modified to make it flash, did you modify your Rhewum or was it manufactured that way?
Very best regards ... Frank
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