Re: voltage divider or series current resistor

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:16:57 -0500, "tempus fugit"
<toccata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gave us:

An LED MUST have a series resistor to limit the current or it will burn out
in a fee milliseconds. It's not a question of lowering the voltage, it's one
of limiting the current to a safe value. LED's need a current of 10-20mA
through them to glow fairly brightly, so select a resistor for each LED to
supply this.


Fairly good answer aside from you being a top posting Usenet retard.

You seem to forget that there are 1 amp LEDs now.

Yes, OP (original poster), they MUST be current limited, and that
limit is defined by their declared specs from their manufacturer.
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