anyone with cwithk's leds wanna do some led math for me? im a led noob

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Jan 25, 2005 | 01:55 PM
  #1  
Ok I'd like to wire 4 of his 3mm led's in a series using the resistors cwithk supplies. So how would I wire them and how many resistors? i really don't know what ohms cwithk's are. These are the specs:

REVERSE VOLTAGE:5.0 V
DC FORWARD VOLTAGE:3.3V TYPICAL
DC FORWARD CURRENT:20mA

This would be much appreciated and plus my differently shaded whites, poorly calculated math of a climate control would also thank you very much.
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Jan 25, 2005 | 01:58 PM
  #2  
If hte power source is 12v, just use one resistor on each pos(+) leg of the LED.
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Jan 25, 2005 | 02:13 PM
  #3  
the resistors he provide are suppose to work with 12v. when i wired my dome light with his LEDs, i used 1 resistor on each LED.
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Jan 25, 2005 | 02:44 PM
  #4  
that's pretty much what I did, but some lights came out dimmer than the closest one to the actual power source. so i was thinking that there was too much resistance and not much juice going to the other led's. =T
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Jan 25, 2005 | 02:56 PM
  #5  
wire in parallel.
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Jan 25, 2005 | 03:06 PM
  #6  
yezzir.. parallel.. exactly wut i did
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Jan 25, 2005 | 03:12 PM
  #7  
in your original post you said you wanted to wire in series. i wired up about 10 LEDs for the dome light in parallel with 1 resistor on each LED and it didn't have any problems. did you solder properly?
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Jan 25, 2005 | 03:26 PM
  #8  
I have found out the lowest ohm ressistince, ressister you can use on a direct 12 volt source is 330 ohms. Anything lower than 330 ohms will blow the reason I found this out is becuase the lowest ressitence and wattage ratting allow a brighter light.
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Jan 25, 2005 | 03:58 PM
  #9  
=T thanks. maybe ill just redo everything, maybe i have a faulty solder point somewhere.
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