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Mess Deck: General Section => Beginners start here...! => Topic started by: sailorboy61 on October 20, 2010, 09:27:20 am

Title: Wiring LEDs
Post by: sailorboy61 on October 20, 2010, 09:27:20 am

Was going to post a question up here, but found the following on the net, thought it might be a useful reference for others too:


http://www.theledlight.com/ledcircuits.html

Cheers

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs
Post by: Bunkerbarge on October 20, 2010, 10:02:11 am

Good link, thanks for posting it.

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs
Post by: boatmadman on October 20, 2010, 03:21:31 pm

I have found this one very useful:

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

Does the sums for you. :-))


Ian

Title: Re: Wiring LEDs
Post by: rathikrishna on October 24, 2010, 03:57:34 pm

Friends, its always good to connect LEDs in parellel instead of series, because nowadays LEDs are not in good quality, and will totally goes off if any of the LED fuses. so its easy to connect an LED with a 470 Ohms  half watt resistor, on 6 volts, and 1 Kilo Ohms at 12 volts. a simple transistorised ( 8050, or 8550) circuit will give you an option for intensity control of the light.