LED-Circuit with one resistor.

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An LED-Circuit with 8 LEDs & only one resistor.

published 10 years ago

TitoMarcos

10 years ago

Tito

GingerKing

10 years ago

Are you a wizard?

erikjohanson2003

10 years ago

Maybe it's a bug in the simulator. If it would work in real life though, then I guess people are so used to having a 1:1 ratio with LEDs and resistors.

Robert_Kidd

10 years ago

It's 8 LEDs in parallel fed via a series resistor. No smoke and mirrors here :-)

Robert_Kidd

10 years ago

The problem with this method is that if any LEDs fail (open circuit) then the others share the extra 20mA so they are then more likely to fail too.

Bushmills

10 years ago

Other problem arises when using LEDs of different colours, as their forward voltages differ. As result, current isn't distributed evenly between LEDs

Robert_Kidd

10 years ago

Thanks for making that point. I got tired of typing lol.

Robert_Kidd

10 years ago

Even LEDs of same colour can vary hence why you usually see a 1:1 led/resistor ratio.

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