LED experiment: choose correct resistor!

Easy and fun experiment using LEDs to calculate best resistor to use :)

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Do you never know what is the correct resistor value for your LED? Do you need different resistor values depending on the LED? How can you calculate all this?

It is very easy: this video will take you step by step and show you using a simple experiment how to solve all these questions.

youtube video

By jgrecoarroyo
Created on May 29, 2012, 11:24

Category: Analog

Difficulty: kids

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

Tags: led, resistor, leds, forward, voltage

Images

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Files

Fritzing Files

forward_voltage.fz

Links

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