LED Wiring Tutorial

[Eclecticos]

First I solder the L.E.Ds Togethor:

I put the resistor on the Negative - End:

Now I soldered the connections:

I hook the wires up correctly to my test power supply:

Then I hook them up + to yellow - to black:

And there you go 3 Green LEDs Lite and Bright.

Resistors are: Brown Green Brown Gold

[MaxOC]

wait shouldnt those led's blow? 3.6x3 isnt more than 12v, shouldnt they blow out?

[Eclecticos]

Well you could wire them Up 2x2. I had a long conversation with bucko and xmastree and They come to the conclusion I needed the Brown green brown gold resistors.

Here is what I have going with the same configuration.
For my Saturn Magnetos Mod: The max is 3.6

I don't know the specifics on the voltages ohms I just go by what works.

I'd be great if someone added to it.

To the best of my knowledge it is correct, ugly but correct.

[DaveW]

That's a pretty cool way to demonstrate! +Rep, even if it turns out it's gonna blow up.

-Dave

[xmastree]

wait shouldnt those led's blow? 3.6x3 isnt more than 12v, shouldnt they blow out?

That's what the resistor is for.

[si-skyline]

Haha, this is the best led tutorial i have seen...
the diagrams are good

+rep for such a great way on how to explain

a good thing to add to is how do you know what are the + and - of a led. i remember it as the fat and skinny parts in the led

si-skyline

[Eclecticos]

I try. Here is the link to some wizards so you can make your own diagram.
http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz
http://www.metku.net/index.html?path...calc/index_eng

[Commando]

Awesome Tutorial,

I learned something new today. Thx. +Rep

[Bucko]

Glad you got it sorted out with Xmastree's and my help.

[cured]

i didn't get this the first time. Then i read it again and i saw how it worked. Nice! i will be using this.

But how do you add extra wiring to the PSU?